Aagh! Friday the 13th has found me without anything processed for a Friday Photo! So I’m cheating again and using another Banff photo I had lying around, sorry. I’ll try to put something new together next week…

Athabasca Falls
Aagh! Friday the 13th has found me without anything processed for a Friday Photo! So I’m cheating again and using another Banff photo I had lying around, sorry. I’ll try to put something new together next week…

Athabasca Falls
I suppose this was probably inevitable, sooner or later. Nikon has announced that they’re seriously curtailing their film-based camera business, cutting their film body production back to just the new F6 and the entry-level manual FG10, dropping all but a handful of their manual-focus lenses, and stopping production of things like their large format lenses. Of course there are still tons of usable Nikon film bodies and lenses out on the used market for those who want them, but film seems to be moving higher up the endangered species list every day.
Yesterday, Adobe announced Lightroom, a “professional photographic workflow tool” similar to Apple’s Aperture. It won’t be released for some time, I think, but they released a Mac-only beta when they announced it yesterday. Far more experienced and qualified photographers than myself have weighed in on it, but I thought I’d give my impressions from playing around with the beta.
It’s definitely good to see some competition in this arena; existing solutions like Photoshop are powerful, but almost too powerful and not streamlined enough for general use. Having several companies will result in better software for less. I’d recommend if you have a Mac and a digital camera (especially one that shoots RAW) to check out the beta.
…and just like that, my Power Mac was rendered completely obsolete. Such is life with Apple Computer, I guess. *sigh*
There are so many technical things wrong with this photo, I don’t even know where to begin. A better photographer than myself would have just pitched it, I suppose. But there are a lot of things about it that I like, and I’m not likely to get out there any time soon to try again, so here it is…

Tower Stairs
It’s not Friday yet, but there are clearly not enough flower pictures on the front page. So here’s one.

Inchworm