Australia, New Zealand & New Photo Gear

Sydney Opera House Sunset

Business travel may not be glamorous, but has its perks. I returned home from this weekend from a business trip that took me to Auckland and Christchurch New Zealand as well as Sydney Australia. While I do love visiting these cities, the trip there and back is hellacious and it takes me days to recover […]

Lake Wakatipu New Zealand

Glenorchy NZ - Barn Shed

Photos at Lake Wakatipu, New Zealand Last month I was on a business trip to New Zealand, and while I was laid out sick most of the trip, I did get out for some photos. I went for a drive through the countryside outside Queenstown with a couple of colleagues from work and stopped at […]

Honest – I didn’t do it!

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Star, My Golden Retriever A quick edit of an older picture of our Golden Retriever Star, “Trifecta‘s Morning Star”, also known at home as The Destroyer of Worlds and Small Furry Things. I was going through old photos looking for something I am working on and ran across this image from about a year ago. […]

Rock of Cashel Panorama

Rock of Cashel Panorama ©2016 John P. Hoke

Panorama of Rock of Cashel, Tipperary, Ireland Last month I had the luck (of the Irish?) to head over to Dublin for a business trip, and took a few extra days for a short holiday with my wife while there. We grabbed a tour bus for a day trip to a number of sites, including the […]

Dublin Ireland – Teeling and Guinness

Ireland - Dublin - Inside the Teeling Distillery, Dublin Ireland

Dublin Ireland – Teeling and Guinness! The second in a handful of photo posts from a recent trip to Dublin Ireland –  a few days holiday, and a few days of business meetings and reviews. This post is of images from the Teeling Distillery and Guinness Storehouse. So, Jen and I took a few tours while in […]

Rock of Cashel

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Rock of Cashel, Tipperary, Ireland The first in a couple of posts from a recent trip to Ireland – a mixed trip consisting of a few days holiday, and a few days of business meetings and reviews. On one day of the trip, we took a tourbus to Blarney Castle and the Rock of Cashel […]

Jester and King Cake

Riverwalk Jester

Court Jester at New Orleans Riverwalk Another photo, this one of a Jester,  from our trip to New Orleans French Quarter last weekend. American Airlines lost our checked luggage for two days, and they were kind enough to pay for Jen to go on a small shopping trip to pick up a few “necessary and reasonable” items […]

Happy Easter and La Sagrada Familia

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La Sagrada Familia – Happy Easter Happy Easter Weekend everyone. Here is a photo of La Sagrada Familia (the Church of the Holy Family) taken on my last trip to Barcelona. I’ve been going through a bunch of photos taken for a project of prints I am working on and this caught my eye and begged […]

Trafalgar Square Fountain

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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 […]

Westminster Abbey – Black and White HDR

Westminster Abbey Black and White HDR-20160123-John P. Hoke

Westminster Abbey Another image of Westminster Abbey from my trip to London in January. This one was captured using a Sigma 12-24mm lens at about 17mm on my Nikon d610. The HDR was created from two sets of three exposures (-2, -1, 0, +1, +2)  merged in AuroraHDR Pro and then tweaked about until I was happy […]