Coffee art

Today is one of those days where I miss the possibilities the rules in Mailsmith gave me …

Spring walk

Considering buying some new photo gear … a bicycle. That would extend my current “radius of photography” from 5-7 km to 25-30km (at least). Now I need to decide if it’s worth the money.

Sigh. Another expense … not unexpected but still. My offsite Synology ran out of disk space while doing a backup of my onsite Synology. And those disks aren’t as cheap as regular disks. Ahh, well time to start looking at web sites to find new ones.

It’s amazing, some people always looks good in a photo … and some never does. Nothing new, but it’s so amazing to see the difference.

Lightroom Classic doesn’t need more AI, it needs syncing that works !!!!!!!

The time is ticking

It seems like spring is here

They are having a chat

I have a mailbox called “Probably crap” and it makes me happy every time I see it (I usually don’t open it … since it probably contains crap 😋).

A misty day

Fascinating, I haven’t used Instagram in 5-6 months and my account is real small and very unimportant. But people still try to break into it 🤷🏼 I wonder why, seems like a waste of time.

I took about 2500 photos last weekend at one event, and 5-600 today at another event. This wouldn’t be a bad thing if I had some time to edit and publish them … I still haven’t looked at the 1000-1500 photos I took in November.😔

My theory is that some repair is needed

That was encouraging, saw a text in German that I understood … kind of. But I wasn’t really sure about certain words, so I used Google Translate to check what it really meant … and my translation was better. It looks like the last 9 months have increased my knowledge of German.

At work today, I got asked to post a link on my social accounts. “Can’t do, I don’t use any social accounts” was my answer. This made me realize something that I hadn’t thought about before: one of the reasons for me getting off FB, Insta, X … all the posts that try to sell something.

Lesson learned. About a year ago, I thought that my SmugMug subscription had become too expensive so I cancelled it. Spent a lot of time trying to find a solution that would be cheaper, more sustainable (regarding my long term economy), and make my life easier. Tried a few solutions, looked at even more - but the solution I come up was quite frail and required different parts/tools. End result was that I was uploading less photos, and it felt like too much work every time I needed to share something.

Recently, I learned a few things about what it going to happen the next 12 months and I realized that my current way of handling things wouldn’t work. It’s simply too fragmented and I spent too much time agonizing over how I should do things. And doing them also took too much time … time I rather spend on taking/editing photos and thinking about how I can improve.

So yes, I’m back at SmugMug and I already feel more relaxed. Expensive? Yep! Worth it: Well, I feel calmer and I’ve shared more photos the last few days than the last 9 months, so yep.

Be careful out there

Microsoft Teams … what a piece of crap