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Spring is here in Halifax and we even had some rain.

Sometime last year I sold my old flash, it wasn't something that I had used in a few years. Then I decided that I wanted to up my macro quality, and the first thing I learned is that I needed a smaller aperature which meant I needed more light. To …

When my Adobe subscription was up for renewal, and they were increasing the cost by something stupid, and offering not much added service. This is on top of the AI nonsense that they are adding to everything I decided to cancel my subscription.

I am still having a hard time …

We haven't been out a lot lately, I'm blaming the crappy weather and too much work, but this weekend was nice and I didn't have any deadlines.

We wanted to go to Frog Pond, but a lot of people has similar ideas as us, so we went exploring a bit …

While I was wandering around I thought the bright clouding sky would give a chance to try the built in HDR function on my Canon R6 again.

Its not a feature that I use often, but its a lot faster than taking a bunch of shots and doing the same …

Yesterday was the first time that I went for a walk towards downtown in a while. I took my 35mm lens with me and was able to get a couple pictures I liked.

This is your reminder to keep polarizing filters in your camera bag.

I think this shot would have been a lot better if I remembered to take them.

If you are self-hosting apps on your local network, that you also want to access from the external world, like I do with my webarchive then you may have challenges getting your DNS to work properly.

One way to do this is to host your own DNS server and point …

To round out 2022 the little guy and I took a walk in the forest to a waterfall that was pinned in my AllTrails. It was a muddy ATV trail, and he love the walk, even after landing in a big puddle. Luckily I brought a towel and we were …

For the last wandering hike of the year we headed out of town, and out of service, to Myra Road Falls (AllTrails Link). It starts at the tip of Porters Lake at the north end of Myra Rd. Which no matter how many times my car's navigation tried to direct …