Monthly:February 2017

The Chevron Towers (formerly Enron Towers) in downtown Houston at night.

Chevron Towers

A couple of weeks ago Super Bowl 51 was played at NRG Park in Houston. In the years I’ve lived in the area, the Houston skyline has changed quite a bit. Despite the downturn in the local economy caused by the collapse of the oil price in late 2014, construction has continued across the city and more glass towers have recently been completed downtown. Houston is a classic western US city with a (mostly) grid-based street layout and a massive […]

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Using Lightroom Smart Collections

Last week I needed to figure out which of my photos I had published and which I had still waiting to go. I did some Google research but didn’t find exactly what I was looking for so I decided to figure it out myself using Lightroom Smart Collections. At the end of my workflow, I generate a full-size jpeg image that I move into a specific folder. From there I publish to my store on SmugMug. But since I process […]

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