Ah, summer. It was an odd one, to be sure, but we will not get another one (hopefully) like it so you really can't let it go without a bit of reflection and tribute. Here's a quick way to do that with a Slideshow on your iPhone.

If you've skipped past the MEMORIES tab in For You on the iPhone or just below Photos in the Mac Photos sidebar, you have to go back and give it a little attention right now. Slow down. Be seated. And bring a hankie.

One of the coolest stealth features of the new iPhone 11 and 11 Pro cameras is Night Mode. It’s a stealth feature in that you’ll never know you have it if you don’t push the envelope by taking pictures in very low light without a flash.

If you use the Apple ecosystem as it’s designed, deleting a picture from Photos on your iPhone will delete that photo everywhere. From your Mac, iPad, anything that’s synced to the iCloud Photo Library. The whole idea that Apple developed is to make it really easy to get at your photos wherever you are.

You know those tribute montage videos that someone spends hours creating in your honor? It’s a milestone birthday, or maybe retirement. Your kids pitch in on Mother’s Day. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a little tribute like that on-demand? You can.

Memories is a nifty feature of Apple Photos that does just that.

iCloud was the first and arguably the best known of all the popular cloud computer services, but it's also the least understood. Features rival the offerings of Dropbox, Amazon, and Google, but what sets iCloud apart is how it enables and supports the whole Apple ecosystem.

It’s easy to screw up a photo caption on Messages or a document when your fingers are about 4 times the size of one key on the iPhone keyboard. Even worse if you’ve shaded a paragraph and accidentally hit “delete.” You know? Well, as luck would have it, you can just shake it out.

For me, Fourth of July Fireworks are the milestone that officially launches Summer. June is a tentative month, with one foot in the work/school/graduation/picnic/beach transition. July is the real stuff. And fireworks are the starting gun. If there are any fireworks in your plans, here is a cool way to capture them.

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.

What could be better for Father's Day than a quick retrospective of all the Father's Days that have gone before? Apple Photos makes that really easy on iPhone or Mac with the Search function.

Probably the first thing you'll hear about from a professional photo organizer (yes, it's a thing) is that your digital photos need proper digital information. One of those information fields is for "description" or "caption" and, as luck would have it, the latest iOS upgrade (iOS 14) lets you easily add a description to the image right on your iPhone.

Find your pictures in no time using the Places album in Apple Photos! Places also happens to be a nifty way of locating pictures in your Apple Photos library. Because the iPhone has location tagging, you can easily use this to find a specific photo.

Since the pandemic has scaled back Memorial Day festivities, it’s a great time to make your own retrospective of how you’ve spent Memorial Days past. Apple Photos makes that really easy on iPhone or Mac with the Search function.

Apple, always pushing the boundaries of tech awesomeness, has been upgrading the Mac operating system each year with new looks and features designed to make us want their stuff even more than we already do. The little scamps. This year, the California-themed upgrade is Big Sur.

I wanted to do something special for Pam's birthday and I knew she needed a good case for her new iPhone. Turns out there are many case makers who offer customization so the task is finding one that offers the case features you like with the photo customization options that fit your creative style.

If ever there was a case for motion, it's email. Email can be boring. Text kind of sits on the page, hoping you'll connect. It's tough to format and impossible to predict how the message will look in someone else's mailbox. A good picture can add interest, but what really stands out is movement.

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.

The search feature in Photos has gotten better every year so it seemed like a decent test to use it for an Easter retrospective. Sure enough, when I searched on "Easter," Photos was able to find over 4 dozen pictures from years past, going back to 2001 and our first Easter trip to visit family in Jacksonville.

Sharing your photos is one of the best paybacks of photography. Publishing your view of the world to family and friends. Social media and the internet has made it so easy to get your work out in front of other people and show off your creative side.

Yesterday we discussed the possibility that your Mac is actually functioning fine, it's just stuffed. Fortunately, it's not that hard to fix.