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London Photography – October 2018

November 7, 2018January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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London Calling? In October I had a business trip over to London to attend the Payment Card Industry Community Meeting as well as a visit to our European HQ offices. While there was a ton of work to do in the ten days I spent there, I did have a number of opportunities to get out with my camera and get…

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Final Milky Way Image processed through the steps in this tutorial

Milky Way Processing in On1 Photo Raw 2018

September 9, 2018January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Bringing the Milky Way to Life As I've posted previously, I have been intrigued by astrophotography and photographing the Milky Way for a while, but really never took the plunge. A lot of the information on the interwebs make learning this almost cult like... there are secret handshakes, obscure references and seemingly mystical processing steps that are necessary. Here I…

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My Workflow prior to migrating everything to On1 Photo

Migrating from Lightroom to On1 Photo Raw

August 30, 2018January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Operation: Workflow Simplification - On1 Photo Migration Used under CC License: Attribution GTDrawings For a long time now, I have been using Adobe Lightroom for managing my photo collections and libraries, while using On1 Photo to perform the bulk of my editing, primarily because (in my eyes) On1 wasn't yet mature enough to risk it. With the release of On1…

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Bear Creek Falls Pennsylvania – Photography & Lesson Learned

August 1, 2018January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Bear Creek Falls Waterfall I like to ride my motorcycle through the Poconos, and I regularly pass the Bear Creek Falls on my ride around the Francis Lewis Dam. It is usually a trickle of water falling down the step like rocks, but we have been deluged with rain for a couple of weeks and the waterfall was flowing strong.…

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Using WeeWX for Home Automation

May 24, 2018January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Weather Underground is Dead to Me I have been running a Personal Weather Station (PWS) for a number of years. Since the start, I have provided data to Weather Underground (WU) for free, with the common understanding that we PWS owners who provide the data would have API access to our data for our personal use and projects. I use…

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WeeWX Weather Station Post Install Configurations

May 20, 2018January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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So the WeeWX Journey Continues (This is mostly written for me to remember things - and for anyone else going down this path) A couple of months back I posted about migrating my Davis Vantage Pro2 Weather Station from running WeatherCat software on a Mac Mini to WeeWX software on a Raspberry Pi. The solution has been working pretty flawlessly…

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The Hubitat Journey Continues – WebCoRE

May 4, 2018January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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The continuing saga of Local Processing - WebCoRE In my post yesterday I described the initial migration steps from SmartThings' (ST) cloud based home automation to Hubitat's local processing solution. I am extremely impressed with the speed of Hubitat Elevation's (HE) automations, and the depth of integrations they already provide, and continue to develop. Another benefit is the depth of the…

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Weather Station Migration to weeWX on Raspberry Pi

March 19, 2018January 22, 2020 by John P. Hoke

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Weather Station Migration: Mac to Raspberry Pi I have been running a Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station in my backyard for just under four years now. The area I live in has so many microclimates that if you don't like the weather you can drive 5 minutes and be in completely different weather. As long as I have been…

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