~daniel21

Hello reader!

Point One: I'm on uni holidays! Hurrah! Now I get to work a lot and not really get a lot of time off (until Christmas, anyway).

Point Two: Because of Point One, working a lot gives me large amounts of disposable income. Instead of spending it all on pyramid schemes, I decided to buy a laptop for uni next year. I perused, browsed and pondered, finally deciding on a MacBook (gasp!). It's tiny, it's really fast, etc... It also looks hot. I swore black and blue once that I'd never own a Mac, so seeing it on my desk every day is like a trip to an alternate bizzaro world where my evil twin killed me and took my place. Using OS X is like taking a holiday to a really pleasant place where everyone is really nice and its sunny all the time, to describe it in non computery terms.

Point Three: I need to take more photos. I promise I will soon. I'm going to try some more rural-rustic-landscape-at-sunset-with-pretty lighting, because I totally dig late afternoon light. I have locations in mind, all i need to do is wait for an afternoon with the right sort of cloud cover, drive there, and take them.

Point Four: Adobe Lightroom is officially made of awesome. If you hate the way you get photos off your camera, play with them in photo shop, save them, etc, Lightroom is for you. Essentially, the idea is non-destructive editing; the original files are imported from a folder that you monitor with Lightroom (automatically, if you wish) and changes are saved non-distructively; Lightroom tags each photo with a 'recipe' - a set of instructions to apply to the photo when it opens it, such as curves, hue, colour temperature etc. Your originals are safe for later editing, and Lighroom handles your workflow. Go. Download it. Free beta. Everything is done for you;

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Point Five:
Very happy non-denominational holiday greetings to you all!

Point Six:
I keep listening to Snow Patrol. Someone suggest something else to listen to, I think iTunes will soon become self aware and attack me if I play "Hands Open" one more time.