Notre Dame Cathedral – Plotagraph

Notre Dame Cathedral – Plotagraph I’m still playing around with my Plotagraph Pro software subscription and learning how to best work with it … here’s a photo from Notre Dame last year that I edited with On1 Photo Suite & the clouds animated via Plotagraph – was a bit tricky due to the fish eye lens – […]

Lightroom to Instagram Plugin

Push photos from Lightroom to Instagram So for years I’ve had a dormant Instagram account that I rarely used as it was too much work to move photos from Lightroom over to my desktop to sync to my phone to post… it was a royal pain in the ass. A couple of days ago, I stumbled […]

Where the Troll Lives – Plotagraph Pro

PoltaGraph of the underside of a covered bridge in North East PA

Plotawhat? Plotawhere? Plotagraph – Animated Photos Came across a pretty interesting software package today over at Trey Ratcliff‘s Stuck in Customs blog. Trey is one of my favorite photographers, and he is also the one that turned me onto my PeakDesign gear, so I trust him when he gets jazzed on a technology. Essentially, Plotagraph […]

DJI – New Phantom Firmware

DJI Phantom 3 Advanced

Phantom Firmware: Follow Me to the Waypoint’s Point of Interest! Engadget reports that the DJI Phantom 3 series of drones (of which I own the 3 Professional) are getting a Phantom firmware update next week (7 Sept 2015) to fill some feature gaps (!!!) that have been widely panned by owners on a number of forums, and […]

Achievement unlocked: Phantom 3 Advanced

Phantom 3 Advanced: Box Contents

Phantom 3 Advanced: Boys and their toys … Ok, I fully admit it, I have a need for gadgets… and I just got one of the best gadgets I’ve had in a while 🙂 I picked up the Phantom 3 over at Stroud Photo in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania; a great shop and the people are amazing […]

Droning on about Drones

Drone Meme: Once upon a time - only the government was spying on you

To Drone or not to drone … Well, that question I’ve answered. I am looking at getting a drone to muck around with here in the backwoods I live in, as well as when I travel (where permitted). I’ve been digging around online and have narrowed it down to two options, the Phantom 3 Professional from […]

WordPress Upgrade to v4.3

The operation completed successfully???

The only thing we have to fear … … is not having a good, complete, usable backup! But luckily, so far, things appear to have gone fairly well. I am now upgraded to WordPress 4.3 and well… nothings gone sideways yet – but the night is young. If you happen to see any gremlins or […]

Housekeeping & Blog Updates

Boston Summer and South Station

Blog updates across the world It is Sunday morning here in Oslo, Norway on the second leg of my European business trips … this one is Oslo, Barcelona and Budapest. I got a few decent images so far and was about to upload one (will do so shortly…) and I noticed I had a bunch […]

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 […]

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 […]