I have moved my blog and photo galleries from our Samco Family website into this new rick.samcos.com website dedicated to my photography and travel work. If you wish to be notified of new blog postings, click on the button at the upper left and choose your method of notification. This new website was created using WordPress, together […]
Website migrated to new server
This website has been hosted on the same Linux server technology at GoDaddy for almost ten years and it has been increasingly showing its age. And there have been recent problems which didn’t have any work arounds. So, I finally bit-the-bullet and spent the last couple of days moving samcos.com to a modern-day cPanel Linux server. You […]
Trip to Portugal & France
Martha and I scheduled 5 weeks at our shared Provencal house in October & November and we decided to tack on couple of weeks in Portugal beforehand. Some friends had raved about walking Portugal’s Rota Vicenta a year earlier, so we decided to follow in their footsteps (literally). I only took my pocket-sized Sony RX100 […]
New Pocket Camera
I just purchased a new Sony RX100 Mark III model to replaced my 2 year old original RX100. Although the new camera’s sensor is exactly the same as the old one’s, there were three principal reasons for getting the new model: The Mark III has an electronic viewfinder (EVF) — I found it very difficult […]
Day Hike around Broken Top
I just published a set of images and panoramas that were taken on a Labor Day Weekend day hike around Broken Top. We hiked from the Broken Top trailhead off of FS Road 370 to the unnamed lake on Broken Top’s northeast side. We then came back around and continued up into the crater on […]