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Golden Hour on the Fence

January 19, 2023January 19, 2023 — Posted inHealth & Fitness, Personal, Photography, Productivity, Technology, Travel — 1 min read

The golden hour winter sun sets on a picket fence, and snowy tree branches, creating a moment of visual respite for end of the day worries and concerns. When you’re so tired in today’s world, of balancing technology with human interactions, or worries and […]

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It’s Only One Day

April 28, 2022April 28, 2022 — Posted inFamily, Health & Fitness, Personal, Photography, Technology — 1 min read

There’s many things in life that we feel are important. Yet, the day we’re on our death bed will reveal if we’ve been right. What is most important, I have learned, is to each day take care of unfinished business, and correct all that […]

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Sunrise Cloud Reflection – Orton Effect

March 24, 2022 — Posted inPersonal, Photography, Software, Technology — 1 min read

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The Chaos of Alias Email

March 14, 2022March 14, 2022 — Posted inFamily, Health & Fitness, Personal, Photography, Privacy, Productivity, Technology — 2 min read

I don’t know if it is a fad or becoming a trend, but the use of an alias email address it seems to be popular of late. The word alias = a false name used to conceal one’s identity; an assumed name. I know […]

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Email Lists and Tracking

January 6, 2022January 6, 2022 — Posted inBrowser, Design, Personal, Photography, Privacy, Technology — 2 min read

The branches of the tree in this picture reminds me of the winding of the information on the internet. I can only imagine all the directions our emails are going back and forth. And how keeping track of it all might be confusing if […]

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The Messages In Our Lives

December 31, 2021 — Posted inFamily, Health & Fitness, Personal, Photography, Productivity, Technology — 1 min read

How we respond to others has a huge impact on the world. How we treat others makes a huge impact on how they see the world around them. The messages in our lives shared through experiences and examples, though subtle, speak and teach louder […]

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Email And Mental Health

December 17, 2021December 18, 2021 — Posted inFamily, Health & Fitness, Personal, Photography, Privacy, Productivity, Technology — 2 min read

I have noticed recently more and more that people are talking about how overwhelmed they are with their email inbox and the need to make it more digestible. We know that social media has an effect on our mental health, with the algorithms and […]

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Should Artists or Nonprofits Use A Domain Name?

November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 — Posted inPersonal, Photography, Productivity, Technology — 3 min read

It is said that if you want to be successful as an artist or nonprofit that you should have your own website and domain name to establish credibility. I think this can also be said for freelancers or bootstrapers. Lets take a new look […]

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Privacy, Security, and the Web

October 16, 2021October 17, 2021 — Posted inBrowser, Design, Family, Personal, Photography, Privacy, Technology — 2 min read

There is much talk these days with digital communications about privacy and security, because there seems to be much confusion mostly on what Big Tech is doing with it. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, known for inventing the internet navigation system known as the World Wide […]

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Why Networking is Important

September 23, 2021September 23, 2021 — Posted inHealth & Fitness, Personal, Photography, Productivity, Technology — 3 min read

Why balancing your relationships online and offline is important in life, and how it can create more and positive impact. On my social media channels I usually don’t post a picture directly, like many other artists do, along with sales jargon or a call […]

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How To Beat The System

July 29, 2021July 29, 2021 — Posted inBrowser, Family, Personal, Photography, Privacy, Productivity, Technology — 2 min read

Back in the day when I started to drive a car, the police were in the beginning phase of using radars to detect the speed you were driving. What followed was the radar detectors so that you would know if you were in the […]

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The Online Meeting Axiom

April 15, 2021April 15, 2021 — Posted inGadgets, Personal, Photography, Productivity, Software, Technology — 2 min read

In the past year that the COVID pandemic has spread around the world, online conference video chats have become more the norm than the exception they were. And all of these platforms it seems have had to make improvements to their technology to meet […]

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Email is the Original Social Media

February 20, 2021March 11, 2021 — Posted inPersonal, Photography, Privacy, Productivity, Technology — 3 min read

With my last blog post, I talked about how using blogs and MeWe are an alternative to the big tech option of information suppression social media. This post I would like to add how Email is the original social media, and I make the […]

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I Make a Case for Writing My Blog on Vivaldi

August 24, 2020March 11, 2021 — Posted inDesign, Gadgets, Literature, Personal, Photography, Productivity, Technology — 3 min read

I just read a book by Glenn Reynolds, “The Social Media Upheaveal”. He says that we are deep reading less, and learning from headlines more. He also says that many of us share on social media articles that we have not read, more so […]

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I'm Frank J Casella, American, freelance photographer, and independent artist. I'm also co-founder of a Catholic Men's Apostolate. My life mission is to share hope and God's love in the world.

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