Amazon Web Services Archives - James Pratt

Fortinet SD-WAN and TIC 3.0 standard means faster internet for federal agencies

November 11, 2020 by James Pratt

Fortinet SD-WAN and the TIC 3.0 standard allows federal agencies to move from a hub-and-spoke network to a much faster software-defined network at a much lower cost. Best part is that SD-WAN capabilities is included with every Fortigate firewall.

How to easily move VMware workloads to AWS or Azure

June 30, 2020 by James Pratt

As pretty well any IT person knows, VMware is the leader and industry standard in hypervisor technology. Companies have been building and running applications in their own data centers using the VMware vSphere hypervisor for years. The tools are mature, staff are highly trained managing VMware workloads, and companies understand how to manage security, maintain […]

RideOK.com migrated to Amazon Web Services

August 8, 2019 by James Pratt

After working off and on for a couple of weeks I finally got one of my WordPress web sites RideOK.com migrated to Amazon Web Services. And it is FAST! For this first migration I installed WordPress on a t2.micro EC2 instance. I was a bit concerned that it might not have enough performance, but so […]

Upgrading VoIP PBX to 3CX V16

May 24, 2019 by James Pratt

Yesterday I installed a 3CX VoIP PBX for a client in Edmond. It was fairly easy to install and worked fantastic, allowing users to receive office phone calls at their desk or on their cell phones just like they were in the office.

Dealing with Amazon Security Keys

May 23, 2019 by James Pratt

Learning to deal with Amazon Security Keys is integral to using Amazon Web Services. Think of security keys as paswords, and treat them as such. It took me several days to figure out the various types of security keys used by Amazon and how to implement them in my workflow.

OK Living Cover May 2020

Before the COVID-19 pandemic I toted my white background and lighting gear to Central Electric Cooperative in Stillwater for a cover shoot for Oklahoma Living Magazine. These usually require a fair amount of work, since I have to take an 11′ roll of white paper with me, plus all the gear to hold the paper […]

Oklahoma Living April 2020 Cover and Feature Story

I always love assignments from Oklahoma Living Magazine. Most are centered around people, and I love photographing people. In this case, I was assigned to photograph a story about Gene Rowe, a farmer in southwest Oklahoma. The story was written by Adam Calaway, one of my favorite writers, so I knew it was going to […]

Oklahoma Living Magazine September 2019 Cover

I had fun photographing this cover story for Oklahoma Living Magazine, one of my favorite clients. I took this picture at the beautiful Chickasaw Nation Cultural Center in Sulphur, Oklahoma on a really hot summer day. I had to be careful to keep my models from sweating. It was toasty hot, about 98 degrees outside. […]

Goodnight Farms in Chattanooga Oklahoma

In 2017 I photographed a story about Cody Goodnight, co-owner of Goodnight Farms southwest Oklahoma. The assignment was for Top Producer Magazine, a regular client I work for in the agriculture industry. I photographed Cody and his father, fiancé and employees on their farm in early spring as they were getting ready for the wheat […]

Volunteer Firefighters for Oklahoma Living

I always love photographing real people doing real things. What could be more fun than photographing volunteer firemen? I got that opportunity recently for Oklahoma Living Magazine. My assignment was to photograph firemen from the Coyle and Woodcrest fire departments in Oklahoma. I had the idea to do a split-shot photo that showed both the […]

Rising from the Ashes – for Kansas Agriculture Magazine

During the summer 2017 I took a trip to western Kansas for a long-time client and photographed a couple of stories in the area. For one story I stopped in Clark County and photographed the Ashland Veterinarian Clinic for a story about how the clinic helped local farmers during and after a huge spring prairie […]

Oklahoma Living January 2018 Cover

I traveled to Tulsa to photograph KOTV’s Leanne Taylor for Oklahoma Living’s “Best of Oklahoma” story for the January 2018 edition of the magazine. It was early December and I had to be there at 7 am to scout for a location. We ended up photographing Leanne after her 9 am television show inside the […]

Shawnee Mills for Oklahoma Living Magazine

Had a fun time photographing this story about Shawnee Mills in where else? Shawnee, Oklahoma. I love shooting photos of industrial-type settings and people at work. I worked with one of my favorite writers Hayley Leatherwood on this project. Because of the dust from the flour mill, I had to mount two cameras with lenses […]

Cause for Conservation story for Kansas Agriculture Magazine

I traveled to Garden City, Kansas over the summer to photograph a story about water conservation efforts in the Ogallala Aquifer that covers western Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. This huge aquifer is slowly being used up by the massive irrigation efforts by farmers in these western states, trying to feed the growing populations of the […]

Virginia McClain for Oklahoma Living Magazine

I love doing portrait photography and had the opportunity to photograph Virginia McClain for Oklahoma Living Magazine cover story. Virginia lives in Luther, not far from my home in Edmond, and was a long-time employee – 41 years – at Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives – parent to Oklahoma Living Magazine. Her father Carl Booher […]