Back from vacation…

Back from my vacation and Yosemite trip. It was, in a word, awesome (except the food at the Yosemite Lodge food court is still very expensive and kinda sucks, and you don’t have many options, but that’s nothing new….)

As usually happens, I came back to a huge block of stuff that needed my attention. I’ve gotten my inbox at work down from about 600 emails to around 250, and if you haven’t heard back from me at work, I’m sorry — working on it. At home, it’s down to about 30, and ditto.

The time off gave me a chance to completely get away and shut down and unwind, and do a lot of thinking and planning, so hopefully soon there will be new and interesting things happening. it also really recharge the personal batteries, which I desperately needed, so I feel like doing something more than site and stare at the screen in the evenings. I’ve spent the last few days reworking my disks and backup strategies because it was clear I was going to run out of disk space sooner rather than later (and you can read more about that here); and I’m spending a bunch of time in Lightroom working through photos and cleaning up my library.

I’ll talk more about the trip as I have time to write it up — but until then, I’ve put some of the photos up on my new Smugmug site, which is where I’m going to be building my professional portfolio (which I’ll write more about as I have time to write it up…).

I did what I honestly think is my best photography EVER. You can see a slideshow of the images here:

Enjoy!

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