As you can imagine, today has served as a recovery day. I slept in because we got in really late, and I don’t have a job to get to. In a way, this was a bit of a pro at least in this situation. I don’t have any plans so I will simply take it easy. Once I am better rested and recovered, I can get back to making a game plan for whatever comes next.

I continue to check for updates on my situation, but there have been absolutely no changes. I am getting anxious that this will last longer than I originally planned, however it remains outside of my control.

Thank you for your message. I am currently out of office with no set return date. I will get back to you when the time is right.

This heat wave is awful. Our Airbnb’s AC can’t keep up and we are suffering through it. It is our last day here but we are not heading back home until very late in the night. We have a concert to attend this evening! Our group split up into two for the afternoon and it was so fun, some of us wanted to do different things, so we figured it would be best to split up and reconvene before the concert.

Packing up and getting ready was a bit stressful but I am glad we got through it and in time to make it to the venue early. My parents watched the youngest and my dog while the rest of us went to the concert. It was an incredible night and one that I won’t forget. I wish our trip was a bit extended, but I am glad we are heading back tonight before my dog gets any worse. In a way, it was the perfect trip with her and I would not change a thing.

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Today was a super fun day. It feels so odd to be out enjoying myself, while simultaneously obsessively checking in on her through my pet camera and wondering if today will be the day. We had an aquarium visit, pizza dinner and a special shopping trip. There is a crazy heat wave right now, so we tried finding indoor activities. It was super a packed day and my dog kept strong through it all. I am thankful for special moments like these with my family and with her.

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For sci-fi adventure fans, Novelette 3 (19,700 words) of The Package trilogy series is finally published. It’s $3 for both EPUB and PDF versions on Gumroad.

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The Package: Foul Run (Novelette 2) is also available. Click on the Gumroad link here: https://ernestortizwritesnow.gumroad.com/l/thepackagefoulrun

I’m currently making the paperback version. All three stories will be on one single book. I will keep you updated.

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Game 3 of 3.

This afternoon's MLB Game once again has the Texas Rangers playing the Cleveland Guardians. This is the third in a set of three games these two teams are playing against each other. The Rangers won the first game by a score of 6 to 3, and the second game by a score of 4 to 2. Today's game is scheduled to start at 12:10 PM CDT. As I usually do, I'll follow the game's score and stats in real time via MLB's Gameday Service where I'll also find a link to the radio-call of the game.

And the adventure continues.

Photo by: Ailbhe Flynn via Unsplash

I was into photography many years ago (like over 40 years ago), and in all this time there have been several significant changes. The single biggest is the change from analog film based photography to digital photography. This one change has completely changed aspects of photography that cannot be understated.

For example, photographers today will never know the joys and horrors of working in a darkroom. Dealing with all the chemicals for developing film and prints. Having to heat up or cool down the developer, and having to be cautious with the timing involved in developing film or prints.

But, while switching to digital tools for “developing” and editing photographs will take some getting used to, that's not the part I want to focus on here. There is something more fundamental in the process of actually taking photographs that has changed. It's something I feel is overlooked if you have experience using film.

This is the ISO setting on the camera. It's easy to understand what this is in digital photography: you are defining / setting the light sensitivity of the sensor in the camera. It's a great feature that leaves the photographer with a lot of flexibility.

But, this quite different from old school film-based photography. Back in those days light sensitivity was defined by physical properties of the film being used. Typically, your camera was locked to the ISO of the film that you were shooting on. Yes, you could change the ISO setting, but then you were choosing to deliberately overexpose or underexpose your film.

There were exceptions in which this was desirable. But, you also had to remember that if you overexposed or underexposed the film you would likely need to adjust your development process to account for it.

Being able to adjust the ISO of the sensor has knock-on effects, since ISO sensitivity is inextricably linked to the range of shutter speeds and aperture settings the photography can select. And this can have other effects, like changing the depth of field.

Digital photography changes the rules in this way. You aren't locked into the physical properties of film anymore. You are, in fact, far more likely to change your ISO based on lighting conditions now than you were in the past. And this takes getting used to, and it changes the way you think about taking a photograph in fundamental ways.

This can make it more interesting in terms of being able to account for other things like aperture, shutter speed, and depth of field. Unlocking the ISO setting has fundamentally changed the way photographers think about the relationship between light and their camera.

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