FYI, I've just pushed calendar template PSD files for 2012, on my Photoshop calendar-template-building script page. If you can run the script, you don't need the templates, but if you can't, they'll perhaps be useful in making your own 2012 calendars.

This is a long post explaining -- venting -- why I have not released a Lightroom plugin for 500px.com. This post will not be interesting if you don't care about 500px.com.

I've worked with a lot of companies during my life developing plugins for Adobe Lightroom. I've got 32 different plugins at the moment. With some companies like Flickr and Google and Facebook, my interaction is as an anonymous faceless third-party developer, but with most I have an ongoing personal interaction... for example, I work with Alex at Zenfolio, and with Dave and Andy at SmugMug. There's a long [...]
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I've just pushed out a fairly big update to my Data-Plot plugin for Lightroom, offering the ability to now plot focal-length, shutter speed, ISO, aperture, and total exposure (Ev).

(This is a big update so I'm mentioning it here, but I don't normally announce updates here. However, all updates appear on the RSS feed for each plugin: there's a link in the upper-right of each plugin page. All my Lightroom goodies are on my aptly-named Lightroom Goodies page.)

Twitter added the ability to include a photo with a tweet a few days ago, so I've had my nose to the development grindstone and today release my "Export to Twitter" plugin.

Most of my "export to..." plugins (e.g. to Flickr or Facebook....) already included the ability to tweet a notice of an upload, and over the next few days they'll also get the ability to include a photo in a tweet, but this new plugin is a standalone tweeter.

(See my Lightroom Goodies page lists all my export-to plugins, as well as my many other Lightroom enhancements.)

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Continuing with the series of photos from last month's Gion Matsuri festival in Kyoto (first seen in this post), here are some more photos from the third day I went out to the evening street festival...

The two colorful ladies were posing for a touristy-looking lady (seen at left). I'm not sure whether I'm more impressed by the shear volume of their hair, or their selection of shoes to accompany their traditional yukata: high-heel platforms for the one, purple Crocs for another.

The third day was by far the most packed with people, and it was a struggle to make [...]