Photo Contest Winners and Awards

Golden Trophy Cup

ViewBug Photo Contest Awards Ok, I am not a professional photographer in any way, shape or form … but I am a pretty good hobbyist, and love the creative outlet it gives me. So about six months or so ago, I joined ViewBug on a whim to see how some of my photos would do in a […]

Longwood Gardens – Nightscape

Night Water - Lillies at Longwood Gardens

Longwood Gardens at Night Yesterday was my birthday, and my wife and I spent the night in Philadelphia so that we could attend the Longwood Gardens Nightscape event – a sound and light show using the natural surroundings as a backdrop and canvas put together by Klip Collective. As for the show, it was ok, nothing to rant […]

Travel Bags and Baggage

Baggage - Briggs and Riley

Carrying yet more baggage … So – for the record – I hate traveling as much as I have to with my new role, and I’ve got a ton of travel coming up this year yet. My older checked baggage is getting long in the tooth and a bit ratty – needs replacement before the wheels fall […]

More Business Travel … oh joy

Latte with a silhouette of an airplane - More Coffee - Less Travel

Oh the “fun” of business travel … [Update 24-May-2016 – more travel posted to map and text] So this year has seen a lot of travel already, and now that there have been some changes at the office, I’ll be doing a quite a bit more this year. As a way of keeping a log of where I […]

Trafalgar Square Fountain

Trafalgar Square Fountain-20160124-john-p-hoke

Trafalgar Square Fountain and Skeleton Last month I was in London for work, and had a weekend to walk and shoot (photos silly – it is England after all …). I walked out to the National Portrait Gallery and Trafalgar Square and grabbed a bunch of images, including this one of one of the fountains in […]

Happy New Year, Resolutions, and Housekeeping

Happy New Year! 2016

Happy New Year (Resolutions) 2016! Another New Year’s come and gone, and everyone will be rushing like mad to make, keep and then ultimately regret their New Year’s Resolutions. Some will promise to lose a couple pounds, exercise, get organized, write their generation’s Great American Novel, or simply to stop procrastinating about 2015’s resolution that died […]

Backyard Buck

White tail buck in the backyard, autumn 2015

Just “Bucking” around in the backyard This pretty boy was hanging out in the backyard the other afternoon trying to get the attention of a couple doe in the trees on our empty lot. Luckily he was too busy watching his girlfriends to notice the dumb human with the camera. If this boy knows whats […]

Back on the road again

On the Road Again

On the road again … Tomorrow I’m back on the road again for a 17 day business trip to Australia (Sydney) and New Zealand (Auckland and Christchurch) for some PCI assessment work, and general information security meetings and reviews with folks in our APAC offices. I do love New Zealand, and Auckland in particular. This is my […]

NY Jets vs Redskins (Go JETS!)

Final Score - JETS WIN!

NY Jets vs Washington Redskins – Week Six For my birthday over the summer, my wife ex got the family tickets to the NY Jets / Washington Redskins game at MetLife Stadium yesterday. I’m a long suffering Jets fan, she a long suffering ‘Skins fan and they rarely play each other. The winner would have […]