Stayed pretty close to home this weekend due, in no small part, to the pile of snow we received here in Halifax. Combined with my AlexnWonderland being submerged in homework good progress was made getting my head around Adobe Photoshop Lightroom and really getting a feel for it now. What a great photographic asset management tool. There may well be better ones out there but considering that to date my digital photo asset management has been folders by day, month and year its a great improvement. It looks like this will bring me back to shooting RAW files again which I did for awhile after getting a new camera at the beginning of 2007 but didn’t really flesh out with Photoshop. I knew there were inherent benefits to shooting RAW files but Lightroom has opened new doors that were not immediately apparent in my habitual Photoshop practices.
So the weekend update goes something like this; Wake up Saturday morning early, work with Lightroom cataloging digital photos 1998 through November 2008, shovel lots of snow burying the the car in the backyard (note photo above), make a run for Fair Trade Ethiopian coffee beans (NOT from Starbucks who armwrestled the people of Ethiopia over trademarking Ethiopian regional names, gawd) and Pinot Grigio both of which have useful properties. Watched Zucca (Cat 2.0) and Dolce (Dog 1.0) get their heads around the fact their familiar landscape was now covered new improved ultra low fat ice cream. Tried another Jamie Oliver recipe from his Ministry of Food series, well worth checking our as a podcast in iTunes, we did the Quick Salmon Tikka with Cucumber Yogurt. We had done the Parmesan Chicken with Crispy Posh Ham before and the Salmon was not a let down. Might have to do his Banana Tarte Tatin by the looks of his podcast, even though we don’t normally do the desert thing, if we did dessert we’d be as big as Yanks. Watched the movie ‘The Hours‘ with Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep… in the movie that is… they weren’t here on the couch watching with us. Other than the pancake breakfast with neighbour Sandra, beautiful AlexnWonderland and Chinese student Jason it been pretty much a day of getting into Adobe Lightroom. So here’s a photo update of the backyard snow conditions and a snap of the Romanesco Broccoli that neighbour Sandra brought over to show off… which is a Cauliflower… called a broccoli… you figure it out.
