Not only is it the 40th anniversary of Mt. St. Helens, but it was also Victoria Day in Canada. This meant that our offices were closed today, and I had a much less demanding weekend than normal. I used this weekend to catch up on some long overdue photography projects. My Mac Pro is now... Continue Reading →
A Summer of Photography with the Canon 1DX Mark II
Well, summer is over this week officially. And so is Sitecore Symposium and MVP Summit 2016 and the mad rush that goes with delivering multiple enterprise software releases and producing content for events like that. Likewise drawing to a close is my first season with the Canon 1DX Mark II. I can unequivocally say this... Continue Reading →
An Almost 50-year Old Bentley and the RROC Fall Tour
Driving 1,200 miles in a week in a British car that rolled off the production line ~49 years ago may seem like a crazy thing to do. But it's not considering the car - a 1966 Bentley T1 - and the event, which was the Fall Tour of the Rolls-Royce Owner's club - held throughout... Continue Reading →
How the only surviving Hamilton Metalplane just happened to float by…
Mid-Summer 2013 #9, a photo by rdonovan on Flickr. Back in July, in between meetings, I just happened to note a rather curious site. A plane. But rather than flying past, it was sailing north on Lake Washington on barge. Luckily I had my 400m lens on the camera and was able to capture it... Continue Reading →
My Take: Adobe Creative Cloud, Office 365, Software Subscriptions, and Old Photos
OK, so I am taking the plunge. Sometime before the expiration of the July 31st cut-off for the CS6 migration promotion, I'll be switching to Creative Cloud. Why? Feature-value. I have been playing with an evaluation of Lightroom 5 (which coincidentally is the only product still available on a perpetual license). I'm sold. And now... Continue Reading →
Dubai – remarks
And that is the tallest building in the world. Live in Dubai - captured on my iPhone as we drove through the city. My remarks: The architecture is more amazing than anything I have ever seen. Anywhere. Period. The country is run like a company - that is the philosophy. Everything is about renewal and... Continue Reading →
Instagram & Customs Hell
I have broken down and joined Instagram. Look for me on there under ryan_donovan. My first picture? My Continental Express flight to Newark...right next to my fiancee's flight to Vancouver. Next to each other but separated by the glass of the secure pre-clearance area of US Customs within a Canadian airport. And speaking of customs...I... Continue Reading →
Hot Dog!!!
One of the rarest of rare photographs - the elusive dachshund known as Otto. Otto personifies why I don't like to photograph living things. They move. And are very hard to compose. Otto in particular is extremely camera shy - even of camera phones. If he sees a camera, he bolts. I finally managed to... Continue Reading →
Fun with Lightroom and RAW – Part 2
San Miguel Dusk #32, a photo by rdonovan on Flickr. Now, here is the exact same photograph as from last week/last post - but with considerably different color and tone settings utilized. Because all of the data is there - and it can be processed quite differently - I have been able to re-render the... Continue Reading →
Fun with Lightroom and RAW – Part 1
San Miguel Dusk #31, a photo by rdonovan on Flickr. For this week's picture of the week - my favorite shot of San Miguel at dusk. Shot from the roof of the building where I stayed. What's of note is that with the Canon 1D Mark IV, this is the first time I have started... Continue Reading →