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A photography back up strategy to avoid saying “I lost my photos!”

Posted on 10th September 2019
View of lower Manhattan from J. Owen Grundy Park in Jersey City

I’ve known family members and even experienced photographers who have lost the photos on the memory card even before offloading them to a computer, and also those who have lost their photos from computer storage. Take a moment to think the time invested and the many beautiful memories you could potentially lose if your current photo catalogue were just gone. I feel my anxiety rising, just thinking about it. Ugh! Stuff happens, and if you do not have a coherent…

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Locking the screen in macOS

Posted on 7th February 2019

The default keyboard shortcut for locking the screen on macOS Mojave is Command + Control + Q. You can use these keystrokes at any time. Once you hit the command sequence on the keyboard, the current macOS user session screen will instantly lock, requiring a login to regain access to the session. This is equivalent in functionality to the Command + L key combination in Microsoft Windows. You can also select this key combination from the Apple menu.…

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Export Web Optimized Images Directly from Adobe Lightroom to WordPress

Posted on 3rd January 2019
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I'm lazy. I try to automate routine, repetitive tasks. One task that I performed repeated for photo blogging was export images to upload to WordPress. My workflow used to export sized images to disk, upload each image to WordPress, optimise the image with a WordPress plugin, and then edit the image caption for use later in a post. It was tedious. A few years ago, I simplified my workflow with a combination of Jeffrey Friedl's export filter and preset, Automattic's…

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Set WordPress Image Caption with Jeffrey Friedl's Metadata Wrangler Export Filter

Posted on 16th August 2018

As of the beginning of 2020, LR/Instagram is no longer a viable way to post directly to Instagram. The developer’s note on their website says: “Service Note: Instagram has updated their protocol and currently plugin does not work. We are investigating the issue and the plugin will be updated when a fix is available.” Jeffrey Friedl is a software developer and photographer based in Japan. For years he has been scratching his own itch and creating plugins for Adobe Lightroom…

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Oven Baked Bacon

Posted on 13th May 2018

I've cooked my bacon this way for several years. It's easy and simple. I like simple breakfasts. I like thick cut bacon but my family (except for my vegetarian wife) prefers the thinner slices. The bacon expert in the house, my daughter Kiran, says the thin slices cook more crisp. I'm still practicing and developing my technique for cooking super crispy bacon while preventing burning. But I think she's correct; the thicker cuts will produce chewier bacon while the thinner…

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