Paris: Through the Lens
By John Hoke
/ March 28, 2023
Paris, known as the “City of Light,” has long been a sought-after destination for photographers seeking to capture the essence…
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Testing IFTTT for wordpress to Social Media
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 […]
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Hosted email and/or spam filtering?
Did someone say SPAM?!? Updated at end of article 22June2015 So, I’ve been using the same web hosting provider for about 10 years and love the service and people… the one thing I am not digging is the tools available for spam filtering … Long story short – I’m in the market for a spam […]
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Boston: The Times Pub
The Times Pub – Boston Another set of images taken while walking around the Financial District and Downtown Boston. This image is composed of three Lightroom merged exposures (-2, 0, +2) and some post processing in onOne Photo Suite. The Times Pub sign is what caught my eye, and the brick wall … so grabbed […]
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Boston Summer Street and South Station
Summer Street, Boston I’ve been up in bean-town for a business trip this week, and the weather has been fairly crap all week – that is until yesterday afternoon. After work, I walked around downtown for a couple hours taking photos and looking something for dinner. I grabbed this image in three exposures (-2, 0, +2) […]
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Barcelona Cathedral Revisited
Barcelona Cathedral Revisited On the road again, this time in Boston, Mass… and it was an unusually rainy and cold night so I spent the evening in my hotel room catching up on some of Matt Kloskowski‘s Lightroom and OnOne training videos I purchased last month… I somehow missed Lightroom’s inclusion of a native merge […]
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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. […]
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Barcelona Cherubs
Barcelona Fountain Cherubs An image from a trip to Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain earlier in 2015 while in the city for business. The walk from the office to my hotel was through La Rambla and I passed these cherubs two or three times – each time the lighting was fubar or there were too many people sitting in […]
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Pont Alexandre III – Paris
Pont Alexandre III A photo of Pont Alexandre was taken in Paris back in 2013 while traveling with my wife on a business trip. We were walking around the city along La Seine in the afternoon and I took a bunch of photos with my older Nikon D7000. I found a SD card this week in […]
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Summer Business Travel
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 […]
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Photos in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
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 […]
John P. Hoke
Cyber Security Professional, Photographer, Coffee Junkie, Mac Addict, Craft Beer & Whiskey connoisseur, all around curmudgeon and generally sarcastic SOB – Not necessarily in that order.
The opinions expressed on this blog are mine alone and not those of my employer, family, pets, the voices in my head, or anyone else for that matter … hell in an hour they may not be mine either 🙂
Recent Posts
Barcelona: Through the Lens
By John Hoke
/ March 27, 2023
Barcelona, the vibrant and artistic capital of Catalonia, offers a treasure trove of photographic opportunities for both amateur and professional…
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Flickr once again
By John Hoke
/ March 24, 2023
Flickr again, or never say “Never” Just a quick post. I have started using Flickr again to publish my photos…
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ChatGPT-4: not always what you ask
By John Hoke
/ March 24, 2023
Shall we play a game? In my continuing saga of messing around with OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Large Language…
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Information Security Training: Why & How
By John Hoke
/ March 22, 2023
Empowering Your Workforce to Safeguard Your Organization’s Digital Assets Introduction In today’s regulatory, litigious and online world, information security is…
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NY Transit Museum – Moving in Time
By John Hoke
/ March 21, 2023
I am still going through and processing photos taken last month at the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn. This…
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ChatGPT 4.0 – more blogging via Artificial Intelligence
By John Hoke
/ March 17, 2023
[Author’s Note] The following was part of my testing of artificial intelligence (specifically ChatGPT’s) ability to write technical blog posts…
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Fooling around with ChatGPT 4.0
By John Hoke
/ March 17, 2023
Messing around with ChatGPT 4.0 So, like a lot of people I have been intrigued by ChatGPT and now that…
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Rust, Decay and Beauty
By John Hoke
/ March 16, 2023
About six months ago I moved to Bethlehem, PA from the Pocono Mountains. My new place is on the South…
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Rebuilding and Redesigning this site
By John Hoke
/ March 15, 2023
Sometimes the best way out of a slump is to gut the project and redesigning it from the ground up…
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