What is that app anyway ...

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I process all of our photography on my iPad. Once in a great while, I have to do something on my Mac, but normally I can do it on an iPad. I have a Mac Mini that is powerd, and ‘connected’ 24/7. Its primary function is to backup all of my photos as they are added to my photo library. This happens regardless of where I am located, as long as I have access to the internet, or when I reconnect to the internet. Teresa’s photos are backed up separately, but using the same process. My PSA: Always make a backup of your important documents and photos!!

Frequently, I like to download and use various camera / photo apps to see the filters and cool effects they provide. Teresa calls it ‘playing’, I call it ‘testing’. 🤔 I enjoy seeing how I can use apps to enhance a photograph. This was one of those days where I was playing ... I mean testing.

I created todays photo using the app  ‘PhotoFunia’. Here is how it worked: I selected a scene, then the photo I wanted to use, and the app crunches for a few seconds, and inserts my photo into the photo they provide. It’s really cool, and that easy.  What do you think?  

If you want to try it yourself, you can get the app on the  AppStore, but it’s also available for Android and other operating systems. You can visit them at their website too. I am not sponsored by the creator of the app .. just sharing for creativity’s sake. 

Enjoy! 

~ Rick

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©2017 Rick Cartwright

The curiosity of a child

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I captured this photo earlier this summer. This is a father and son, alone in a canoe. Sadly, we don’t have time for parents to be alone with their children .. after all, we are so busy playing the role of ‘the adult’.

I remember some of the funny questions my children posed. Now that we have grandchildren, we are getting a second chance. It is so amazing. They see the world so differently. For starters, they are so curious. The are not afraid to ask questions about anything, and everything. We can learn a great deal by observing children.  

Today I salute the curious people. Those that are not afraid to ask questions and poke at the rules and experiences in life. Those that ask ‘why’ and ‘why not’, not to openly rebel, but to create something better. Be curious and make curiosity a lifetime endeavor. It will keep you young too. 

“I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.” ~ Johnny Depp

~ Rick  

Prints are available for many of the photos on this site on canvas, metal or glass. They are stunning and you can purchase them for a wall at home. Click the link or the ‘prints and such’ tab.

©2017 Rick Cartwright

Never forget ...

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I took this photo yesterday afternoon: Veterans Day 2017. I am so thankful for the men and women that serve our nation. Freedom is so fragile. I am free to take photos like this, and to write my thoughts and share them openly because of the men and women that have served or currently serve our nation. Let us honor those that ‘put it all on the line’ for freedom. Many paid the ultimate sacrifice. Let us never forget! 

~ Rick

Prints are available for many of the photos on this site on canvas, metal or glass. They are stunning and you can purchase them for a wall at home. Click the link or the ‘prints and such’ tab.

©2017 Rick Cartwright

The Sea of Galilee, a boat, and those lost at sea

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Teresa and I spend a week in Israel in May, 2010. I took this photo while we were visiting the Sea of Galilee. It’s also known as Lake of Gennesaret, or Lake Tiberias. It’s a small freshwater lake (33 miles in circumference). Wikipedia puts it at 141 feet deep .. much deeper than I thought. I clearly had expectations of a larger lake, based on the Bible stories I learned as a young child.

It was hot that day. We had fish for lunch, than then when on our way.  It was a great experience. 

The following has nothing to do with the boat in the photo above, the lake, our my trip to Israel. Just call this my tribute to the men of the Edmund Fitzgerald: 

On November 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm in the waters of Lake Superior. Swells of 35 feet, and 100 mph winds were too much for the Fitzgerald, and the entire crew of 29 perished.

For those that know little about it: 12 Doomed Facts About the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald. 

Some may remember the Gordon Lightfoot tribute to the tragic loss: 

The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound.
When the wave broke over the railing.
And every man knew, as the captain did too.
'Twas the witch of November come stealin'.
-Gordon Lightfoot, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976)

~ Rick

Prints are available for many of the photos on this site on canvas, metal or glass. They are stunning and you can purchase them for a wall at home. Click the link or the ‘prints and such’ tab.

©2017 Rick Cartwright