Right Brain Feed

I met a really nice couple in Ocracoke, and wanted to make sure I captured what they learned the hard way. The day before they were planning to leave their beach bag was stolen on the beach, and it had their car keys in it. Their Prius has a keyless fob.  The remoteness of the outer banks left them in a real lurch. Locksmiths can't/won't create a new fob, if a new fob isn't accepted by the keyless system, it locks all fobs out, adding $2k to the cost of fixing the car. They didn't have a spare one at home in a drawer that could be fedexed to them. Dealers can't make a new fob without the car being physically present. The "solution" (a pretty ugly one on a remote island) is to get the car towed to a dealership, and to have the dealer program a new keyless fob. From Ocracoke, they had to find a tow truck that will take the hour ferry to come get their car, and then tow them 4 hours to the nearest dealership. When they arrived at the dealer, it took the deale...

 In learning about new camera technologies, it's easy to stumble across fervent opinions online on how glorious RAW format is for storing your photo files instead of having your camera spit out JPG files. So far I'm not buying it.... for my style of very limited editing of photos.  Manual post processing of photos feels like homework, the more photos I take, the more Photoshopping I'm supposed to do.  I'll leave Photoshop experts to that. In fact, I don't own a subscription to Photoshop.   I'm currently using ON1 Photo RAW, but not using it to do RAW editing. I'll let it do auto adjustments of contrast, highlights, and tones, I do some cropping here and there, but that's it.  Maybe there are cases where I could dramatically improve a photo with RAW editing, but they double the amount of storage (a valid concern when my photo library size is in the hundreds of GB), and it's a time investment for me.  For instance, maybe this photo could have been a lo...