Where to find me - with links

Good Monday morning. It’s Labor Day here in the US. It’s also my birthday. I’ve been on this Earth for 53 years now. There isn’t anything planned for today. A couple of people are coming by to hang out. I wanted to share where I can be found on the internet. I’m going to delete my Facebook account soon. The main reason I stayed on so I could stay in touch with family and friends during Hurricane Laura. I’m not liking the way Facebook is going so I’m going to step away. I’ll continue to be on Instagram for the time being but I will step away from there by the end of the year (if not sooner). My goal is to concentrate on my website and YouTube channel exclusively.

If you aren’t following my YouTube channel, please subscribe. If you aren’t subscribed to my website, please subscribe. It would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks. Have a wonderful week.

Website Update

Those who have been following my blog/site for a bit, you will notice I made two changes. When you show up to my site, I now have a video instead of pictures. I also changed my blog format. I will shift from Facebook and Instagram to my website. There are too many distractions and I’m not getting any kind of traction, especially on Instagram.

One of my favorite photographers, Dave Morrow, has a video talking about getting off of social media, concentrating on your website and uploading to YouTube. I’m contemplating going that route soon. Here is the video I’m talking about.

Thanks for your support on this site. I appreciate it. My focus will be here showing my photography, videography, and other cool stuff.

Have a good one. Peace.

Even more Inkscape work

I have been following tutorials to create different shapes and logos. I have been having fun learning how to use Inkscape. Here are some of the creations I’ve made.

A logo idea I’m contemplating using

I have created quite a few more designs. If you want to see when I post new stuff, please follow me on Instagram. The link to my account is right here. I’m on there quite often.

Thanks for your time reading this post. If you haven’t please like, comment, and subscribe.

Have a good one. Peace.

More Inkscape work

Here is some more work I did in Inkscape. I am having fun creating new work. I hope you like them.

Logo idea

I am going to work on the logo a bit more. It was suggested to try a different style font and not to bite into the other letters. I got the idea following a tutorial on the Logos By Nick YouTube channel. I liked the idea and tried it out.

I hope you enjoyed the work. Please like, comment, and subscribe if you haven’t. I am going to cut down on my social media footprint in the next few weeks. I am not sure what I am going to delete but I know Facebook is for sure going to be deactivated. Instagram will be the last to be deleted. I am going to focus on this medium and YouTube. Once I decide to make the call on deleting everything, I will let everyone know.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you enjoy the content. I will talk to you later. Peace.

Lightning Shots - 3 different ways

We had storms come through here in southern Louisiana yesterday and there was lots of lightning. Once my duty day ended at four o’clock, I got into my car and tried to get some lightning shots. I had my phone shooting video and my Samsung Gear 360 was going in the back of my car. The shots below are from three different ways I was able to capture lightning.

This still shot was taken from a video I took on my Samsung Galaxy S10+

This shot was taken with the Lightning Camera app.

This still shot was taken from a video taken with my Samsung Gear 360 camera.

There are different ways to capture lightning if you have the patience. For example, I took over 40 minutes of video with the 360 camera and this was the best lightning strike I got.

I hope you enjoyed the lightning shots as much as I enjoyed being out there and getting them. I love storm photography.

Please like, comment, and subscribe if you haven’t. I hope you have an outstanding day. Peace.

August is going to be busy...

John here.

Yep. Today is August 1st. This is probably going to be the busiest month for me this year. Let me explain everything happening this month. This month is going to fly by.

I start a 365 photography project today. I am going to take a picture everyday for the next year and see where it goes after that. Last time I started a 365 project, I shot for over 1,100 (1,137 days if I’m not mistaken). I’m going to practice things I don’t normally do, like portrait photography. This is going to be a fun project.

School starts in a week. I’m a computer repair technician for a local school board here in Louisiana. Yesterday, we had to shut down the Internet completely because there is some ransomware out there attacking the school districts. Four school districts have been hit here in Louisiana so our governor has declared a state of emergency and steps are being taken to “hopefully defeat this virus.” I will keep everyone updated on this. I have been voluntold to be a cameraman for our convocation or pep-rally next week before school starts. We have 48 sites with technology and five people in my shop. This school year is going to be extremely busy.

There are a couple of birthdays this month - my wife, Melody, Her website is mkrmauthor.com and she is a published author. Check out her site and sign up for her newsletter. My daughter in law has a birthday too. My father in law also has a birthday.

I am going dark on my social media starting August 4th. I’m only active on Instagram and somewhat active on Twitter. I’m going to concentrate on my website and YouTube (maybe start posting on Vimeo). Expect more posts from me starting next week.

Sorry for the long post. I will be posting pictures of my 365 project starting this afternoon. Look out for that posting. I hope everyone has an outstanding rest of the week. The last giveaway is still going until Saturday, August 3rd at midnight.

I’m outta here.

John