Charles Howse, Photographer

We enjoyed seeing the night time exhibit at the Chihuly Garden and Glass museum in Seattle.

With Tami J. Wilde – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

I'm not posting much during this RV trip... but here is one from Great Sand Dunes NP.
As usual, this image looks best seen on a real monitor, not a small phone screen.

Every day, be creative.
Creativity is a muscle.
— James Altucher

Just chilling after an intense week long photography workshop.

So, with Adobe still not changing their TOS to be not so blatant about stealing our Intellectual and Copyrighted Property, which App are you checking out? I've bought On1, and C orel PaintShop and am also looking at Affinity ( which is now half price to lure folks from Adobe)

There are lots of options, but if you rely on LR for both asset management and editing, I've not yet found one app that does both as well as LR does.
But I'm willing to settle for fewer features along with less theft and disrespect from Adobe.
Their recent ads which encourage people to "Skip the Photoshoot" and use AI to create images - in other words, "Don't hire a photographer" - is a huge slap in the face for all the photographers who in the past embraced the Adobe tools in their workflow. Now Adobe is publicly trying to put the photographers out of business.
It's time to find a different method.
Yes, some Adobe employees and apologists have attempted to clarify and tone down what the TOS intends to allow Adobe to do, but until the TOS is actually changed, those posts, comments, assertions, and promises and just words, while that TOS we all had to agree to last week is still binding and Adobe is still doing what they wan to do. They have the power, but if enough of us abandon that platform, other platforms will grow better and faster to fill the few voids the other apps have.

There are lots of lists on-line of alternatives - here is one on GitHub:

GitHub - KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives: A list of alternatives for Adobe software A list of alternatives for Adobe software. Contribute to KenneyNL/Adobe-Alternatives development by creating an account on GitHub.

RIP Maj General W Anders.
Using a modified for NASA Hasselblad 500EL, Anders took this - the first color photo of Earth from space, as he watched 'Earthrise' Beyond the horizon of the Lunar surface.

Facebook is weird, and some of that weirdness is making me even more certain it is too much of a time waster to be useful.
IT has grown and evolved into something far different than it used to be. It is becoming the type of media bureaucracy and self-serving empire that we flocked to FaceBook in order to escape from. It is now a huge $ generating machine focused on how best to get the bucks from advertisers and small business people who have been using FB to get their messages and announcements out to people.

REcently they have been messing with their algorithms and bots that decide what notifications they post to our pages. A week ago there were several days when there were only twenty notifications at a time, the list would scroll no beyond that, so we saw only the most recent notifications, anything more than a couple hours ago was not shown, so we had no way to know of things that usually are interesting in a notifications list.
Today, the notifications list is scrollable, but it is composed of notifications between 2 and 12 weeks old - nothing from recent postings.

Lots of people are wishing for and hoping for a better alternative, but right now, FB,IG Meta have the audience and numbers in their favor.

It will be really difficult for a newcomer to make headway against the Giant.
We need a David.