Star Squared

Trifecta’s Morning Star Squared Playing around a bit with some new lenses, and my dogs as my guinea pigs. This is a Tamron 28-300 f/3.5-6.3 on a Nikon D610 body… actually, this is a Golden Retriever who’s photo was taken with the equipment combination above 🙂 I cleaned up the photo a bit with Lightroom, […]

Testing IFTTT for wordpress to Social Media

IFTTT Logo

Please ignore this is just a test of IFTTT – if this had been a real blog post, then I may have actually had non-machine-generated content below 🙂 TLDR; its a bunch of useless text to ensure IFTTT works right 🙂 Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus eget nibh vel eros vestibulum […]

Trifecta’s Morning Star

My Star A photo of my Golden Retriever, Trifecta‘s Morning Star – who was kind enough to be a crash test dummy for some work I am doing on a preset in onOne photo suite. She is the best damn Golden in the world – and yes I am completely partial and the vote was rigged. […]

Summer Business Travel

Paris Eiffel Tower

So it appears that I will be heading back to Europe this summer for work … currently on the itinerary: London area, Paris, Frankfurt, Barcelona, Budapest, Oslo – that’s for starters … While I am not loving the idea of traveling over the summer – it takes time away from one of my favorite hobbies/mental […]

Photos in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

Jim Thorpe Train Station, Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania. ©2015 John P. Hoke

Photographs: Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania Part of the “joys” in moving a blog from one site and application to another is going through the photos and playing with them, and reposting some. Here are four I took a couple years ago and retweaked in onOne PhotoSuite and Lightroom. These were all taken in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, about […]

Mom, Dad and Baby Me

Mother, Father, and a baby me

Mother, Father and Baby Me makes three Happy Mother’s Day Mom! I don’t have a lot of photos of my mother, let alone my mother and father and I together. My mother passed away in June 1979 of Familial Polyposis, a genetic form of colon cancer at the age of 32, when I was just about to […]