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If you have been following this site for any length of time you probably know that I am always trying to simplfy my flow, and to future proof it. The person that has led me on this path more than anyone has been Derek Sivers. He is the creater of …

Canoes in Maine

In July 2015 I went with a crew of friends camping and rafting in Maine. It was my first (and only) time rafting, and it was an adventure. I think I have a time-lapse of some of our adventures somewhere.

When gigabit fibre isn't helpful

After testing the new lightroom workflow on a few smaller collections (< 1500 pictures) I figured it was ready for primetime, so I created a bunch of collections, one for every year, and added all the unflagged DNG or RAW images to them.

That was a mistake.

I only clicked a …

Sometimes I wander from the car

Nothing much to add to this post, I took the toddler for a car nap and while she slept I took a couple pictures of seagulls from the car while reviewing drawings on my tablet.

Exciting times.

Finally, a workflow I like with Lightroom

I am a big fan of lightroom classic, and still can't get into LightroomCC (or just Lightroom now). I have tried a couple of times, I'm not a professional photographer in any way so the online version should work well for me. In fact, the idea of doing some light …

"The Falls"

I'm going through all all my photos that are in Lightroom and have come across this photo I took in 2009 of the falls, I spent a lot of time playing around these little falls in Aberdeen growing up.