How I Finally Stopped Dragging My Laptop Into the Field (And What I Use Instead)

How I Finally Stopped Dragging My Laptop Into the Field (And What I Use Instead)

Every time I pack for a photo trip, I play the same exhausting game of bag Tetris. Camera body, check. Lenses, check. Tripod, check. And then, because apparently I love suffering, I wedge in my laptop, which is easily the heaviest single item I own, just so I can move files from one small device to another small device. The laptop is nothing more than an expensive, power-hungry middleman. In this Mark Denney tutorial, he puts that exact frustration into words and then introduces a solution that genuinely changes the field workflow for travel and landscape photographers.

Your Lightroom Catalog Is One Outage Away From Gone - Here's What To Do About It

Your Lightroom Catalog Is One Outage Away From Gone - Here's What To Do About It

There’s a conversation I keep having with photographer friends, usually over coffee, that goes something like this: “Where do you actually keep your photos?” The answer is almost always some version of “in Lightroom” - and that answer has started to genuinely worry me. Not because Lightroom is bad software, but because most of us have quietly handed over custody of our entire creative life to a subscription service without thinking too hard about what that means.