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. […]

Barcelona Cherubs

Barcelona Fountain 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 […]

Pont Alexandre III – Paris

Pont Alexandre III Bridge - 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 […]

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 […]