My Weekly Creative Summary for the Week of 2024-10

👨🏻‍💻 26 posts 😃
🏞️ 10 photos shared 😃
🎙️ No podcast episode published 😔
📺 No YouTube video published 😔

👤 Personal

1️⃣ I'm feeling uninspired this week. I'm considering skipping this week’s edition. I feel I have nothing interesting to share, except maybe some photos. 2️⃣ I might visit Ottawa this weekend, which could shorten my time for reading or writing. 3️⃣ I'm on nobody's blogroll and feel sad about it. I know, it's stupid, but it is what it is. 4️⃣ This week's edition is a typical case of, oh my god, I don't think I have anything to share, but as the week goes on, I find a lot of stuff to talk about. I should trust the Internet better to stimulate my creativity. 5️⃣ Ok, ok, this week's edition is not bad at all. I hope you enjoy it.

🗺️ Discoveries

1️⃣ I made a few photography-related discoveries this week, as shown in the exhibits section below. One is about a street photographer sharing her views about this important photography style. She used to be very shy, and it took her a few years to warm up and find her way to snap photos on the street and feel good about it. 2️⃣ I discovered that Whisper Transcription for Mac can record computer audio. This means I can play a YouTube video and ask Whisper Transcription to transcribe the audio into a text I can save into my reading notes in Bear 2! That's cool. It works great.

📖 Reading

1️⃣ Lots of small and longer reading sessions this week allowed me to fully test my reading notes processing workflow. I'm slowly getting to a state that I think is where I want to be: the best app, simple steps, light and efficient workflow. I should probably post a video about this in the future.

👨🏻‍💻 Writing

1️⃣ After a slow start early in the week, things started to change, and I could work on some upcoming feature articles. My writing pipeline is relatively low for now. I would expect to add my upgrade experience when the new iPad Pro are coming and when I upgrade my device. We’re a few weeks away from this. 2️⃣ Just the very same day where I wrote about my pipeline being low, I had this urgency to write about blogrolls and the effect they have on me and my mental health. I need to set some time aside for this personal writing project. My main ideas have already been written down in Craft.

🌄 Photography

1️⃣ You don't do a lot of photography if you always stick to your screen. I should repeat this to myself more often. It seems that occasions for photography sessions come when I'm on vacation. I live in a relatively big city, Montreal, and I should go out more often. 2️⃣ I love my iPhone 15 Pro Max, but holding it to take a picture is different from holding a bigger camera. My Nikon D750 is a "real" camera, but it feels too big. I realize my desire to get a mirrorless camera is partly because they are usually smaller. Using a 50mm or something lens helps a lot, too. Leica cameras have great bodies that fit this idea of a smaller, but they are expensive. 3️⃣ The Nikon Zf camera, with its retro-style design, is very tempting and reminds me of my beginnings in photography. I spent some time watching video reviews and reading written reviews this week. Two things of note: the dedicated “BW” mode on one of the camera dials on the top, the cameras seem bigger than I would expect. On the latter, I will visit my local photo equipment dealer and see them in person. 4️⃣ The dedicated “BW” mode of the Nikon Zf is so cool that the iPhone camera app should have one readily accessible. You have to tap the top up-pointing arrow, then scroll to the right on the button tools band to get the different photo modes. There is the "Noir" style that I like a lot. See my picture in my home office in the exhibit section below.

Allison Kendall on Glass Photography Community

Allison Kendall. For the Love of Light⚡ Californian in Canada

Saugerties, NY - saving daylight II 677/730

Tom Picasso on Glass

saving daylight II 677/730 — Tom Picasso on Glass Photography Community

White Sands — aows

<p>adrian vila is a spanish-american black and white photographer</p>

aowsWhite Sands

🍎 Apple

1️⃣ No new iPad Pro this week, sadly. It's a slow Apple news week. 2️⃣ The Apple Vision Pro might soon be headed to Canada (and other countries)! All I want is a demo of this thing. Yet, it's becoming more apparent that I won't buy the headset, not in its first generation. I prefer to save some money to replace an aging iPad Pro that I use often or buy a new digital camera that I would use much more often without feeling or looking weird while wearing a pricey headset.

🚧 Special projects

1️⃣ I'm still migrating my metablog content to Micro.blog. It's tedious work, and I'm unsure it is worth it. I find some old stuff that I don't think offers much value to my readers. Yet, I keep doing it. 2️⃣ I built a list of my favourite blogs to share them with my readers easily via a blogroll. It's another tedious task, and I want the content choice to result from my intentionality. So far, I have selected a few well-known bloggers, but I might change my selection to lesser-known ones. 3️⃣ I read about this One a Month club from Manuel Moreale and Jarrod and decided to make the jump myself. I spent time rebuilding my Ko-fi page and set up a few things. My Ki-fi page is available here.

One a Month Club

One a Month Club

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📱 Apps & Services

1️⃣ Craft v2.7.6 is out with a few valuable changes. However, long-standing issues with the iPhone version since Craft Reloaded v2.7.0 was released have not been addressed. 2️⃣ Micro.blog, in a surprise move, introduced a new feature: blogrolls. I recreated my blogroll page using this new feature. It's pretty cool to have Micro.blog natively supports such a classic of the blogosphere. 3️⃣ I'm still learning to fully utilize the Arc Browser features and continue to gather my usage notes for a future article. 4️⃣ I think the developer behind Pixelfed is spreading himself too thin, as I wrote to him this week in response to his numerous announcements.

📺 YouTube

1️⃣ I decided not to acquire the Elgato Prompter for now, even if the reviews are generally very positive. It's not cheap, and I can make good videos without it. 2️⃣ I tweaked my recording setup in my last video: I tried using two cameras pointing at my face. When I'm talking to people watching the video, I use the front-facing camera, while I use the side-face camera when I'm demonstrating something. I think it provides an improvement. See the exhibits section below.

💎 Miscellaneous

1️⃣ A year ago, I completed migrating this website from WordPress to Ghost and wrote this announcement. Since then, I've been happy with my experience with Ghost. Did this migration have any impacts on my visitor’s analytics? I think so, but it might be because my content is more interesting than that of my hosting platform change. There has been an apparent uptick in the last few months related to my weekly creative summary newsletter introduction. Over 12 months, I saw 6000 more page views on Ghost than WordPress for the same period a year before. I have 128 subscribers to my website; a few are paying members! I'm pretty happy. 2️⃣ Still trying to figure out Feedland! I don't know if the time spent on this is worth it.

🔮 Looking ahead

1️⃣ Of course, I'm still looking ahead to the new iPad Pro! I'm also looking forward to seeing the Nikon Zf in person. Depending on the iPad Pro announcements and pricing, I will make a final decision in April.

I wish you a great week!

My Weekly Creative Summaries Index

Exhibits 👀

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