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Author Archives: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen is one of the top bloggers in the world, and host of the Lorelle on WordPress, providing WordPress and blogging tips for bloggers of all levels. A popular keynote speaker and trainer, she is also editor, producer, contributor, and official disruptive thinker for Bitwire Media which includes WordCast, Making My Life Network, Stories of Our Journeys, Life on the Road, WordCast Conversations, and the very popular WordCast Podcast. She is also author of one of the first books on blogging, "Blogging Tips: What Bloggers Won't Tell You About Blogging" and the recently released ebook, Social Media for Crafters: Covering the Basics of the Social Web. Taking Your Camera on the Road, founded by Lorelle, is one of the oldest personal websites in continuous existence in the world.

Travel, Computer Shopping, and Other Holiday Tips

I’m barely home from a mad dash cross country trip driving across the United States from Seattle back to Alabama in a small motor home, and I have to turn around and fly back to Seattle next week, so I’m busy rushing about doing last minute holiday shopping and cleaning up. In the middle of […]

Layover in Tulsa

My father and I have made it to Tulsa, Oklahoma, home of my in-laws, for a brief layover. With a day and a half spent with my father’s aunt and uncle near Palm Springs, California, a day with his step daughter in Phoenix, and a lot of driving, we’ve covered several thousand miles from Seattle […]

On the Road – Seattle to Mobile

I am currently on the road driving my father from Seattle to Mobile in his Class C motor home. This is a great lesson in how NOT to stay connected to the Internet though I’m having better luck in some places than I thought. We are currently in Desert Hot Springs, California, visiting his aunt […]

Over and Under Exposure Digital Photography Tips

Photoshop Tutorials by Jennifer Apple offer tips and techniques for using Adobe Photoshop for adjusting overexposed and underexposed images, along with many other tips and techniques for using Photoshop with your photographs such as resizing images without blur and tips for beginners to help get you started using Photoshop. I’ll be looking for more websites […]

Study on the Road With Academic Podcasts

I need to look more into this, but I thought I’d give you a first glimpse. Productivity Strategy Blogs’s List of Academic Podcasts is an amazing list of various universities and colleges which offer their lectures via podcasts. I discovered early on that an iPod or MP3 player full of good audiobooks went a long […]

Awesome Sustainable and Eco-Friendly Architecture and Furnishings – Inhabitat

Inhabitat is a blog specializing in showcasing ecological, environmentally friendly, and sustainable lifestyles with architecture and furnishings. Their post on amphibious houses is a must see for those working on the rebuilding of the Gulf Coast of the United States as well as other flood-prone areas. For us, preparing to build a new home soon, […]

Smile for the Camera

Some of the technological advances being made in photography are wonderful, some are amazing, and some are silly. I’ll leave you to be the judge of the following, though I see its usefulness. The Canada Edmonton Journal reports in “Smile, the camera is waiting for you” that the Japanese have come up with a camera […]

Reduce Digital Noise in Digital Images

Photo.net has an interesting article on “Using Image Calibration to Reduce Noise in Digital Images” that is worth a read. While it is fairly dry, written more for academic purposes than get-to-the-point help, it still brings up some good tips and points worth understanding when using digital images. I believe that understanding the sources of […]

Article About Us – Accessibility Doesn’t Have to Be Boring

Eyes Apart: Living with strabismus, a blog by Lois, who suffers with Strabismus which causes one or both eyes to not point in the same direction at the same time. She has written a lovely article about this site, Taking Your Camera on the Road, highlighting the fact that producing a website that meets web […]

Fixing RV Water Damage

Water damage from moisture inside and leaks outside can do amazing damage on an RV, especially an older one. Phrannie’s Handling Moisture in RVs article is a great indepth, step-by-step description of what to look for in every part and piece of your trailer, motor home, or van to stop the drips, leaks, rot, mold, […]

Weather Bonk – Weather With Google Maps

Incorporating Google Maps with weather reporting, Weather Bonk offers another way of weather watching. Weather Bonk lets you view real time weather information on a map. This can provide some very interesting information, particularly in areas with microclimates, such as San Francisco. For example, summer in San Francisco can be particularly cold and foggy, and […]

Two Months After Hurricane Katrina – Into New Orleans

Not knowing the intimate details of the damage left behind from Hurricane Katrina, I assumed I’d seen the worst of it in Ocean Springs. Everyone talks about how bad New Orleans is, but from the little television and Internet coverage I saw before making this journey, buildings were still standing in New Orleans, so this […]

Xray Vision Lens Filter

Digital Photography Journal’s article, “See Through Lens” describes a new lens filter that let’s you have xray vision with your camera. Kaya Special Optics, Inc. is introducing a newly developed product called the “Infrared See-Through Filter PF. PF is a special optical device that helps to visually penetrate an object’s surface in order to view […]

Airline Safety Announcements – A Funny

I’ve had three people send me this, so I thought that since it was going around, it would be fun to post for everyone, and maybe people will stop forwarding it to me. ;-) All too rarely, airline attendants make an effort to make the in flight “safety lecture” and announcements a bit more entertaining. […]

Hacking Your Way Off the Utility Grid for Your Home

As be plan to build our new home soon, you get the benefit of the ecological, environmental, and energy saving tips and tricks we learn. Hacking Your Way Off The Utility Grid from Brian McConnell is a great article on how to maximize solar electricity and other resources to minimize your reliance on local utilities. […]