My Heart's Work - 11 2018

December 05, 2018

I started taking photos of shelter animals in April of 2013 and have been pretty consistent with it through the years. I started with the League City Animal Shelter now League City Pets Alive…added the Webster Animal Shelter in June of 2014…Nassau Bay in May of 2015…Bayou Animal Services in October of 2015…Bay Area Pet Adoptions in December of 2016.

Below are the beautiful homeless animals that I took photos of in the month of November 2018 for the above mentioned shelters. Each and every one of these babies are so deserving of better…more love, more understanding. Hopefully by the time I make this post each month most, if not all, are in loving homes. That is my hope.

“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.” –Charles de Gaulle

I created a video slideshow of all the shelter babies I photo’d this month. I hope you enjoy. The link to a gallery will also be provided below. They are all such wonderful souls and I hope they all find a wonderful forever home with families that adore them.

CLICK HERE TO VISIT GALLERY

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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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Mama Lilly’s 6 Mo Litter Reunion

November 09, 2018

Back in April of this year, wonderful foster volunteer Elysia Patterson took in a very pregnant doggie named Lilly from League City Pets Alive and saw her through the birth of seven puppies. Elysia also facilitated the adoptions of all seven babies. Mama Lilly was adopted from LCPA once she had recovered from the birth. Recently, Elysia contacted all of the families of the puppies and got them all to show up for a 6 month reunion shoot. The only one who could not be there was Mama Lilly herself because we did not have contact with her adopter.

Below is a video slide show I put together for the event. For each pup there is their infant photo, the photo I took to get them adopted, the photos I took at the reunion (1 by themselves…1 with their family). A full group photo and a photo of all pups with their foster family are also included.

I hope you enjoy.

Please visit the video on Youtube, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to my channel. Thank you!
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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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CLICK HERE OR ON PHOTO TO VISIT SESSION GALLERY

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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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