Volume 5, Issue 3, 08 December 2025 | |
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Welcome to my December newsletter! I hope you survived Halloween and Thanksgiving feasting and are ready for the year-end holidays.
The last supermoon of 2025 just happened, it was a beautiful moonrise, which I captured with Boston's Zakim bridge. I love when the moon goes in and out of thin cloud streaks while it rises. It was cold, indicative of what's to come over the next 3 months, but enjoyable, nonetheless. If you need some rechargeable hand warmers, check out my holiday gift guide below!
I have a few things to report on about what I have been up to over the past few months, most notably my newly established Substack learning channel and with that also a new online store, which I use to make my publications more accessible to everyone. Read on for more below.
| | | You are receiving this newsletter, because you signed up for it or gave me permission to add you to the distribution list on one of my workshops, presentations, live or online events or my Meetups groups. You can unsubscribe at any time, simply scroll to the bottom to find that link. | | If you haven't done so yet, make sure to correct your camera's date and time, we are out of daylight wasting time (pun intended, I think it only wastes everyone's time changing clocks) and most cameras do not change time automatically. And it's always good to check up on that, because my Nikon cameras, for example, tend to charge ahead, it was off by almost 5 minutes today. | | I recently started my own Substack channel to write about photography, inspire through photos and ideas and provide education about night photography, long exposure photos, infrared photography and all my topics that I specialize in. There will be lots of posts for photo editing in Lightroom, Camera Raw and Photoshop, news about new features in these, event announcements and, of course, my photos from recent outings or projects that I started or fine-tuned. I would love to see you subscribe to my Substack, just click on the photo to get there. | | In order to make my publications more accessible without having to sign up for some blog channel, I also created a Shopify outlet. Shopify accepts all sorts of payment methods: credit & debit cards, Paypal, mobile wallets and so on, making checkout simple and quick. My electronic assets are available through links that you get after payment, so they have immediate access. The physical goods, of course, take a but longer, such as my photo books. Bookmark it as one of your favorite photo shops! | | Patreon Update: What's new? | | |
My Patreon channel now has about 470 articles from the past six years. Here's a selection of what has been added since my last newsletter.
- Detailed reports about September's lunar eclipse in Germany, quite a different experience!
- I am debunking some myths about memory cards and how to use them
- A review of the very lovely Meike 24mm f/1.4 MIX Auto Focus STM lens
- A detailed look at available 12 Lightroom and 6 Photoshop Alternatives
- An equally detailed rundown of Digital Asset Manager software, I have been using ThumbsPlus for 30 years, which is no longer available.
- A 2025 Holiday Gift guide, in case you need some last minute ideas for a photography friend (or yourself)
- And, as usual, a lot of inspiration
You can find more than 100 public posts on my channel, which you can read without payment, just follow the channel. Look under COLLECTIONS - PUBLIC or simply scroll down. And if you like what you see, consider signing up for one of my paid tiers.
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Final tip: Last time I mentioned that writing changes to xmp files in Lightroom was bloating both your XMP files as well as your catalog file. Adobe since fixed that bug. It no longer bloats your catalog, but now writes separate .acr files for denoise operations.
Until next time, I wish you a great holiday season and all the health and success for 2026. Find me online here (all updated new links).
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