The difference of seeing the northern lights at home
Sometimes, we have to travel far and wide to experience natural wonders, but other times we’re lucky to experience them in our backyard
Sometimes, we have to travel far and wide to experience natural wonders, but other times we’re lucky to experience them in our backyard
Jerry Seinfeld recently had interesting things to say about the virtues of writing by hand versus typing: I think pens are a very important creative tool. Keyboards really crush your freedom. And it's too corporate to be creative. You wanna feel like you're getting away with
The only calculator app I use is finally on iOS. I used version 2 for as long as I could while the Mac and iPadOS got the update. It’s polished, snappy, and lives on my home screen. The only way working with numbers has made sense to me. Check
Last week, a total eclipse took half the country by storm and most of the bandwidth on traditional and social media. (Here in Michigan, it was only 94%). Folks across platforms discussed the "best way" to experience it. There was lots of conversation about how to protect your
Life was abundant today during my usual lunchtime walk. The weather is pleasant, about 56 degrees, with the sun shining and only a few clouds scattered across the sky. I took a longer route, The world seems to be in progress; the bees are active, and the butterflies are freely
For years, I’ve wanted to read Jaroslav Pelikan’s five volume series “The Christian Tradition.” I’ve owned the first volume but never got around to read it. With it being Lent, I wanted to start. As I went onto Amazon to look at the other four volumes, I
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This morning, preorders for the Apple Vision Pro begin to much enthusiast fanfare and confusion. While the premise is exciting, there’s little to go off about how good it is in day-to-day usage. But will all the talk that will come about the idea of “spatial computing,” as a
Beth Allison Barr’s “The Making of Biblical Womanhood” is a detailed and approachable study of an idea that has plagued American Christianity: Biblical Patriarchy. While many may not know what the exact term “Biblical Womanhood” means, we are familiar with its basic teaching: God has ordained men/husbands to
Breaking up is hard, but there's someone who makes it more difficult: Siri. The digital assistant has actually become more useful in recent years, understanding more and more about our lives, schedules and habits. But it's lacking one feature that any friend or acquaintance has: Don&
I take a lot of photos. Currently in my iCloud Photo Library, there are 236,167 images, 6,429 videos and 8 items. And I’m running out of cloud storage. While Apple has made major improvements in Photos and the iCloud Photo Library in recent years, such a large
The organizational overhaul still focuses on the overall timeline of when photos were taken but curates them in a new and smart manner based on days, months, and years. Using machine learning, Photos can pick images and videos that are relevant to your location and time of year. Also improved
Lightning can be one of the most difficult and time consuming things to photograph. It's hard to predict when it will hit and there's usually adverse conditions that make it potentially dangerous. But the results can be, well, striking. With DSLR cameras, the standard way of
There's a really cool feature in iOS 13 that allows you to watch a series of concurrently taken Live Photo's simultaneously as one long video. I noticed this a few weeks ago when I was watching a Live Photo and it kept on going through the
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Summer is one of my favorite times to take photos. The weather is nice, the light is good and everything seems in motion. For editing, I’ve continued to explore the app Darkroom. One of my favorite features is applying frames. They make photos stand out on Instagram and help,
I was excited when it was announced that Kurt Vile was going to play at Bell’s Eccentric Café. I had listened to some of his music over the years and enjoyed it, but never spent the time listening to it. In the age of streaming services, it’s easy
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The days are getting longer and the temperature is rising, it’s summer in Michigan. Here are some of my favorite photos I’ve taken in the past month. Lots of beautiful sunsets and some quality time with my family’s dogs.
iOS 13 offers a whole bunch of new features, but some of my favorite additions are in the Shortcuts app. Note: I am currently using the developer beta on a secondary device for testing purposes — do not install on your main device or wait for the public beta this July.
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Apple announced a whole bunch of new software on Monday during its WWDC keynote, and Camera and Photos were well represented. While many of the big new features come with the release of new iPhones in the fall, there was a good amount announced for I played around with the
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Photos is baked into iOS — it is the default image editor and one of the few apps you cannot delete. It is also the hub for all photos and videos across devices. Like I wrote in my iOS 13 wishes for the Camera app, Photos is powerful because of its
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I’m starting a new monthly feature highlighting my favorite photos I’ve taken with my iPhone. This month, I fell back in love with shooting in black and white. I never really used the built in filters in the Camera app, but my girlfriend sent me some photos using
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I use the built-in iOS camera dozens of times every day. It is just a couple taps or a swipe away from launching. Because of the simplicity to open, load and shoot, it is my most used camera app, and the most used app on my iPhone. As Apple’s
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King Crimson recently released their studio albums on streaming services — following a release of some of their live albums late last year. I always respected Robert Fripp’s decision to not make the catalog available, but it’s a good thing that this great music will be available to more
As someone who takes a lot of pictures with his iPhone, I love the ease of iCloud Photo Library backing up all my images and video. I don’t really have to consider it anymore. At a concert last night, I had taken several photos and videos, and thought: everything
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I recently presented at Kalamazoo Social Media Week. It’s a great conference full of local Kalamazoo marketing folks. It’s always fun to meet the people behind the brands we follow digitally and hear what works for them. The goal of my presentation was to give actionable tips for
Last night I saw The Musical Box perform their Genesis Extravaganza in Grand Rapids. I had seen the band perform a few times before in Cleveland where they recreated the tours of “Foxtrot” and “Selling England by the Pound.” What really set them apart from other “tribute bands” was that
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If there was one basic rule to taking better photos with your iPhone, what would it be? Over the weekend, I was listening a recent episode of John Gruber’s The Talk Show with guest Merlin Mann and the subject came up. The most basic rule of photography is to
I recently began a process of moving all of my websites over to Squarespace. For years, I’ve hosted on Wordpress and really enjoyed it, but as I’ve become more and more busy with work and other things in life, I’ve had less time to focus on the
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Here at Pocket Camera, I primarily focus on what you can do with the iPhone camera as it comes out of as box, but occasionally some apps are so much fun and unique that I have to share them. Fuzion is a photo editing app released this week by Leonard
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Live videos are a great way to connect directly with your followers in real time. Before the iPhone and social networks offered easy streaming platforms, it was cumbersome to get a live streaming set up, but now it’s as easy as hitting one button. As easy as it is