Kids and Photos

I take a lot of pictures of my son – a lot.  In most cases they get filtered down to 10% of what I took worth keeping. But those 10% are not only worth keeping, worth framing and up-sizing (obviously I don’t do that for all) – point is taking good pictures of your little…

5 “Gems” for the Couple Travellers

There are a crazy number of different individual personalities in the world, couple combinations are even greater in numbers.  People may get a long in “regular” sedentary routine life, but once they travel it can go either one of two ways, really well or horribly.  With that in mind, and considering you really do see…

Switch up your daily photos

Forget the fancy photography course, the high end camera shots, the black and white dramatic pix – how about you try closer to home on the day to day pictures you take of family and friends.  Obviously it is up to the photographer and what they like, but try a couple of “tactics” that are…

Gluten friendly almond muffins

Gluten free baked goods aren’t just great for those who are gluten intolerant.  They offer an easier to digest alternative that’s a nice break for your system even if you can take on flour.  Plus, alternatives like Almond flour give a nice subtle flavour missing from regular white flour. Time: About 60 minutes Serves: 15…

Tweet old Instagram posts

For those who wish to post (ore re-post Instagram images) into twitter as an embedded/native picture instead of the link, the good news is there is a somewhat quick way to do it, the bad news is it’s not automatic and you’ll have to do it manually for each picture.  There are plenty of ways…

To Cairo and bust!

Well, I’m finally in Cairo, and I am exhausted already.  More due to life in general outside this trip, but it hasn’t been exactly a cake walk coming here either.  So here it goes; I lost all my other journals (bye bye Yemen, Nepal, Alexandria memories) because I lost all my DAMN files. This is…

To filter or not to filter

So the endless debate continues on whether photo filters area good thing or not.  I have to say based on discussing this with about 8 people so far the opinions are all over the place.  Whether its professionals,amateurs or somewhere in between there really is no defining opinion (i.e. not all professionals are of the…