Tag: photo a day

I Would Rather Be At Home

I am working in the office. I think I mentioned that once or twice (or 50) times today. I would much rather be working from home. I miss Jen. I miss my new desk (I am working in a conference room with two staff members. It’s fine, but my desk is mine… and new… and mine). I miss my cats, even though they generally sleep their way through the work day.

The office isn’t so bad, but home is better. 

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I took these two pictures before I left the house this morning.

Same View, Different Day

This is pretty much the same picture as yesterday’s photo a day pic. The difference is, yesterday I used my iPhone and today I used my Mirrorless with a nice, fast lens.

You probably don’t have to guess which one I prefer.

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Camera Fail

I went out early this morning to run a bunch of errands. I took my camera with me, thinking I had a couple of spots on the route where I could take some pictures.

Before I left the house I took this picture of Robin Sparkles the cat with my iPhone…

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Guess how many pictures I took with my Z5. Go on, guess.

Zero.

So the cat is once again my photo a day winner. Again.

The Blinding

Remember the entire past Spring and Summer when I was constantly bitching about how the sun was always buried behind rain clouds every single time I had a chance to go outside and take pictures?

Remember the last few days where I was constantly bitching about having to drive in to the office 70+ miles away from home for three straight days this week?

Is there a connection between these two remembrances?

All three morning commutes have been accompanied by the blinding sun shining so brightly, directly into my eyes that it literally burned the retinas out of my eye sockets and melted what little brain I have in my skull. Literally. 

Like… is that irony, or is it mother nature getting some payback for all the bitching and moaning I’ve been doing? We may never know.

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Camera Workflow

I have a new workspace for telecommuting. I had a desk in the cellar that had a work computer section and a personal computer section. When I took my photo a day pic at lunch time or whatever, I could plug my Nikon Z5 into my personal computer, a MacBook Pro, and pull the RAW file into Apple Photos, convert it to a PNG, and then upload it to Flickr.

On the new desk, I don’t have the Mac next to me. It’s just Windows. That means I don’t have a way to convert from RAW to something else. I suppose I could find an app to do it, but I don’t want to install anything on my work laptop. Instead, I changed my camera workflow a little. Instead of saving RAW files, I am not saving a RAW file and a JPEG. I’m also saving the two formats to separate memory cards. RAW goes to the card in slot one, and JPEG goes to the card in slot two. That means I can put the JPEG card into my USB card reader, and upload to Flickr directly from the card. That way I am not saving anything to my work computer, and I can still take care of my photo a day thing during the work day.

Here is proof that it works:

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Success, babie!