One thing I learned quickly is that photojournalism is often about making the best of an imperfect situation. Mobile photography is often like that too. Because you always have your "camera" with you, those random photo opportunities show up when you least expect them. You're in the wrong spot. Or too far away. Someone walks into the shot or a car goes by. You grab what you can. But you don't have to live with it. Cropping became the secret weapon in my photo toolbox.

The whole idea of Apple Photos is to create a safe, secure library of pictures that can be called up and exported on demand, customized for their particular destination.

The thing about deleting pictures from your Photos Library is that they’re gone. I know. That seems stupidly obvious and not worthy of a 5 minute read.

One of the great things about Apple products is that Key Commands are consistent across the macOS and apps. With practice, key commands are much faster than using a mouse and have been a professional trick for decades.

Photos are, at their best, an expression of how we see things. What we choose to show and what we don't. Like a picture frame, the cropping of a photo can make all the difference in what draws attention and how an image peaks our interest.

This is a little different riff than how Live Photos offers motion eye-candy in the form of loops, bounces and animated GIF's. This is about the same pre-exposure images the can get the smile, the jumping cat, or the bolt of lightning that you weren't quite fast enough to catch.

Black and white (or monotone, greyscale, b&w, whatever you call it) photography has been the signature look for the work of so many famous photographers. As luck would have it, the iPhone lets you hop into the Way Back Machine and shoot in black and white too.

When Steve Jobs introduced the iPod in 2001, he said it all by offering to deliver "1000 songs in your pocket." It was the promise of unlimited music at your fingertips, anywhere you were, all the time. And it launched the experience of mobile media.