by Andy | Sep 4, 2016 | Photography, Picture of the Week
I’m on a quick trip to Washington DC at the moment, testing out some new gear from my friends at Bluffworks.
When I was out on the National Mall today the sky was just so beautiful and blue that I had to get a picture of one of the prominent monuments. The Washington Monument is a stark monolith in the middle of the National Mall and made for a nice subject, I thought.
This is a quick post but I hope you enjoy this week’s picture of the week! (Click through for the picture)
by Andy | Aug 31, 2016 | Airline Loyalty Programs, American Express, Chase, Credit Cards, Videos, What's the Points?
What’s the Points is back! Checking in from a quick vacation I’m taking, I give you my final thoughts on the Chase Sapphire Reserve, some executives changing spots at big airlines, and American’s foray into the crazy and unfriendly world of dynamic award pricing. Click through for the video!
by Andy | Aug 29, 2016 | American Airlines, United Airlines
Big news from two of the biggest airlines in the world, involving the same person?
by Andy | Aug 29, 2016 | Dallas, Photography
I hope you enjoyed yesterday’s Picture of the Week. I shot a little video of how I took the shot and then how I edited it in Adobe’s Lightroom mobile app. There’s some new functionality in the Lightroom app which allows you to edit RAW images, which is wonderful for people like me who like editing and posting on the go. It requires (at least for my iPhone) an SD card adapter, which you can buy from Apple.
This will be mainly for you photographers who like utilizing your own workflow instead of using Instagram or Facebook filters, but hopefully you appreciate the demo either way!
[click through for the video!]
by Andy | Aug 28, 2016 | Dallas, Photography, Picture of the Week
Hello everyone! I was just out in Deep Ellum, just east of downtown Dallas, Texas, taking this picture. Deep Ellum is an arts district that has recently undergone a nice revitalization but has maintained its gritty roots. In Deep Ellum you’ll find great restaurants, concert venues, and wonderful art installations and graffiti walls. Two statues buttress the entrance to Deep Ellum when heading south on Good Latimer Expressway. These status are of the same character: the Traveling Man. The DART train runs down the middle of Good Latimer Expressway and the Traveling Man relaxes across the street from the tracks, playing his guitar and waiting for his train.
I’ve always meant to take a picture of the Traveling Man and finally made time to do it tonight. As part of shooting the picture I also came up with a challenge: edit the Picture of the Week entirely on my iPhone using Adobe Lightroom Mobile’s new RAW editing capabilities. Without getting too lost in the weeds, this enables me to edit RAW images to the level of quality I would normally only achieve when back home or at the hotel with the full Adobe Lightroom version on my various Macs. In fact, I put together a little video about the challenge, so stay tuned for that!
Anyway, here it is, Deep Ellum’s Traveling Man! (click through for the picture!)
