What I’m Working On Now

Hello from somewhere over the vast Pacific Ocean!

Travels

Well, let’s start with the big and fun news: I had a delightful time in New York City and State with cousins who live in upstate New York and later with my team for a major team event. Highlights are on my travel blog under 2025 > New York.

I started writing this post from an AirBNB a few hours south of Sydney, Australia. My daughter and I are having a big exploration of the east coast of Australia over the next 10 days or so.

And –shocker– I got focused on the trip and didn’t finish this post until today, when I’m on the way home. We had a fabuoulous time in Australia. My recollections of our trip are here over ten travel stories: 2025 > Australia.

Digging Back Through the Archives

I’m continuing my years-long project to revisit and re-edit my full photo library. I’m about ¾ of the way through the project as we stand. This means every so often I get to post old new things to my travel blog from trips I took long ago. Here are some of the latest additions:

• A Desert Roadtrip. In late 2011, I had two different meetings at Adobe headquarters in San Jose with a few days of downtime in between. So I decided to head east and explore some parts of neighboring Nevada. A desert could never be my home, but I love love love a quiet and lonely road trip through a desert.
• Dominican Republic – May 2012
• Safari West – As part of a team event in July 2012, we got to tour Safari West, a wildlife preserve that features many animals not often seen in North America.

Some Thoughts on Revisiting Old Photos

Having now revisited so many of my old photos, especially from 2011 and 2012, I have a few observations:

• My taste in processing photos has changed. A lot. I might even say my 2012-era processing wasn’t great. I choose different photos to edit now and I see things in them that I completely missed back then.
• The tools for processing photos have improved significantly. I still use Lightroom Classic for my photo processing, but it has learned a lot of new tricks in the last several years. I’m especially fond of the new AI noise reduction. That has made many previously-unusable photos very appealing.
• I’m thankful that I’ve kept what I then considered outtakes. I’m very careful about data retention and owning my own data. (More on that another time …) The good news is I have many photos that I previously rejected and they have – in this round of edits – become favorites of mine.
• I am enjoying the opportunity to retell old travel stories. Digital storytelling is a key part of who I am and it’s a great deal of fun to revisit past memories and experiences.

Work

Last month, my team co-sponsored our third Content Authenticity Summit to discuss and promote the work we are doing in partnership with many organizations to promote the cause of authentic content provenance. I was honored to lead a session on how individual and organizational identity fits into the overall content provenance ecosystem. There’s a lot of work to be done yet, but I’m excited by the progress we’ve made so far. More of my thoughts over on my dev blog.

And –very related– the standards group that I co-lead made a major milestone with the ratification of a new standard for binding identity to Content Credentials.

Quote I’m Pondering

“Every time I think I am healed, another wound whispers beneath my skin, another memory rises like smoke from the ashes of old versions of me, but maybe healing is not a destination, maybe it is the brave act of walking through your own ruins and still planting flowers.” – Robert M. Drake