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One Hour Photo App

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One Hour Photo is one of my favorite photo apps on the iPhone. The best part about this app is that the interface is super simplified, and you focus on shooting photos and not chimping, as the photos won’t be available to view for one hour.

Chimping is something you see a lot with digital cameras, it is the act of looking at the back of the camera immediately after taking a shot to make certain you got the shot.

One Hour Photo blocks you from doing this. You take the shot and it goes into developing mode. You can see your photo after one hour as elapsed, in B&W.

Here is an example:

Neat right?

I usually pull out the app and snap a few quick photos and then an hour later I am excited to see what I shot again as the app sends a notification that the photos you took are ready. It sends them to your photo album after you launch the app.

If you have taken photos less than an hour after the first photo you take, it will tell you how long till the next batch are available to view.

Its simple and clean and a joy to use.

What photo apps do you like to use?

Hope

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Today’s challenge in the Every Day Inspiration blogging course is to use a one-word prompt to write a blog post for the day. Holy cow that is tough, especially the selection of words they gave and then choose one. They also have this really interesting blog post about a prompt box. Which is really funny as it reminds me of an old photo project I did with friends where we drew a term out of a hat and then had a week to shoot it. 

Anyway the word I chose is Hope.

Hope is an interesting thing. You can feel it, it can surprise you, or you can be crushed by it.

We can be filled with hope.

Hope is something you want. Not for today, but for tomorrow.

Here are some things I am hopeful for:

  • That I will pay down some of my debt
  • That I will pass all of my required tests
  • That I will get back into doing the things I loved like photography and camping

Hope is a lot like luck. It is great to have, but you kind of have to work for it and work on it.

Fortunately, the things I am hopeful for I can easily work on. I can study in my free time, and listen to tutorials. I can pick up a shift at a small store and use that money to pay off some of the things I need to pay off.

I can pick up a camera, find a free weekend and just get lost in the woods.

Nothing is truly without hope, you just have to figure out the path to it.

I also hope I can continue to maintain the writing schedule that I have set myself up for.

Ending out 2018 is going to be busy as hell and the start of 2019 is going to be pretty turbulent as I make some pretty radical life changes. I am hopeful, for the changes.

I am also terrified beyond beliefe.

It is going to be excellent.

Thing’s I like

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I am taking the Everyday Inspiration WordPress blogging course and day 2 is to make a list post. Today’s topic is “thing’s I like.” I have never really looked at the daily posts resource page till today, but it was cool to see this list of things liked.

It is kind of the inspiration for my own list.

Lets jump right into it. Things I like:

  1. Hiking
  2. Photography
  3. Peanut butter and banana toast (with honey)
  4. Mexican Food
  5. Kayaking
  6. Floating the river on a hot summer day
  7. My cat Boots
  8. Twitter
  9. Dogs and cats and any other pets that I run across in the world
  10. getting lost in new places
  11. Wurstfest
  12. Fiesta
  13. The Gulf of Mexico
  14. BBQ – All kinds
  15. A bowl of chili on a cold day
  16. Rockport, TX
  17. Comic Book Conventions
  18. Science Fiction and Fantasy Books
  19. Dinosaurs
  20. NASA and the whole going to space thing
  21. Cheese
  22. Long aimless walks
  23. Accomplishing goals
  24. marking things off the todo list
  25. Robots
  26. The State Fair of Texas
  27. A freshly sharpened pencil –  particularly the smell
  28. A lazy Sunday napping in a hammock
  29. Spicy food
  30. Dr. Pepper (I need to learn to not like this one so much.)
  31. Waterfalls
  32. The smell of salt in the air
  33. Santa

I am sure there are more things I like, but this is a pretty long list so far. Heck, since I have started writing the conclusion to this post, I have added more to the list.

It is ridiculous, and awesome. The email had three other prompts for lists that I think I will use in the future.