Photo Session - John David, Ryland and Ava

November 07, 2018 in Tipton-Creative, Session-Family/Child

11.03.2018 – League City, Texas – Family Session

A great session with these three. Handsome, cute, adorable…just a few words to describe JD, Ryland and little Ava. They were troopers and the weather was overcast, but pleasant.

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I am Rhonda Tipton and I am a photographer residing in the Houston area. My work includes a wide range of subjects such as portraiture, events and fine art; however, I feel my purpose on this Earth is to tell the stories of those without a voice through my pet, animal shelter and rescue photography.

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Coding: Ruby File Rename Script

February 20, 2017 in Coding, Coding-Ruby, Interior-Photography

I started working part-time for Hallway 2 Marketing last year, 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 Ruby Script

The files before the script

Script execution

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

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Taking Notes with Google Keep

February 19, 2017 in Google, Technology

Google Keep is a rich note organizer that supports photo notes, voice notes, and checklists. It lets you quickly take and save notes, photos, and checklists to Google Drive, and then access them again on any other device you use.

I love Google Keep’s interface and ease of use.

Just “jot down” what you want to keep track of or go back to later…label it, so if you want to just look at Recipes, for example, you can do it with ease.

I also love the Chrome extension that allows you to clip text and/or images from a website…or just make a note with a link back to the website to review later.

The link shows up in my Google Keep after clipping it in Chrome.

All in all, I find this app very easy to use and I love that it is part of the Google space. It syncs seamlessly between my phone, my iPad and my Macbook.

Happy note-taking!

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Letting the Shelter Animals Shine

February 15, 2017 in Animal-Shelter

I’m a firm believer of getting the shelter dogs out of their confinement and capturing their true spirit. You can’t rightfully judge an animal for their behavior in a kennel. You have to get them away from the noise of the other dogs and bond with them. You will be amazed at the difference in their behavior.

I have displayed a few examples below.

TOMMY & TEDDY

While intake photos are needed and get the sympathetic “Awwww, poor baby” response from the public, I believe photos of the animal outside the kennel environment draws more attention and ultimately results in an adoption in a lot of cases.

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Some Google Search Tips

January 26, 2017 in Technology, Tips-Tricks, Google

I've compiled a few cool things you can do on Google Search. I know there are so many more things that can be done, but the ones below I can actually see myself using. Without further ado...some neat Google tips.

1. Use * as a place holder...or wildcard