Child Session | Kayla is 3

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Date: 09/09/16 | Location: Helen's Garden - League City

This was a challenging session because the weather could not decide what it wanted to do. When I arrived, it was sunny and there was blue sky with some clouds. Twenty minutes later...right about the time I started clicking the shutter...it started drizzling. Gotta love Texas weather. We did some of the shoot underneath the cover of the trees and by the end, it was back to being sunny and hot. Kayla did have fun jumping and running through the puddles. 

Shelter Photo Summary - Week of OCT 17 2016

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Two shelters this week. Both League City and Bayou Animal Services have so many homeless animals that are needing a loving home. Below are the ones I took photos of...they are in no certain order and the shelter is noted on the photo itself. #adoptdontshop

"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened." - Anatole France

I will close with my favorite out-take of the week. This baby was very scared by all the noises of the barking dogs around her and a stranger on top of all that. My assistant/husband carried her to the spot we took her photos. She was fine once she got away from all the chaos and is a sweetheart.

Pet Session | Pete and Oakley

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Date: 07/01/16 | Location: Richmond Residence

Pete and Oakley were so much fun and were real troopers on a very hot day. Such personality and character!

Pet Session | Gunner

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Date: 05/24/16 | Location: Bacliff Residence 

I loved taking photos of Gunner! He is such a sweet and wonderful boy with soulful eyes. 

 

 

Coding: Ruby File Rename Script

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In February of this year I started working part-time for Hallway 2 Marketing, photographing homes for real estate. I take the photos then rush home to start the edit process. Before the photos can be uploaded to HAR, they need to be a specific file name to make searches easier on the perspective home buyer. So I wrote a program to help me streamline at least part of my process.

I wrote a Ruby program to rename files by stripping off the first 8 characters of the existing file name. As I edit real estate photos, I name them like the following: DSC_XXXX Street - Living Room.jpg - the program basically loops through 30+ files stripping off the DSC_XXXX making the file name "Street - Living Room.jpg"

The files before the script

The files before the script

Script execution

Script execution

The result...files ready to upload to HAR

The result...files ready to upload to HAR

This is the first code I've written since I quit being a developer in 2011. The process has sparked my interest in coding again...at least for fun. LOL