I've just posted a two-part writeup that Lightroom users may find interesting:

It's joined my plugins and other Lightroom-related things on my Lightroom Goodies page.

I really need to find a 12-step support group, or something, to help wean me off of Lightroom plugin development. I was already way behind on everything before Lightroom 3 came out, and then was inundated with email from that as I tried to get all my plugins upgraded. But then I took time out to indulge in some new development, which yielded my new PhotoSafe plugin, but left me even further behind on email and blog comments.

So yesterday I sit down with the intention to at least do a triage through my waiting mail, and at 10am I [...]

It's been nothing but plugin development in the Friedl household since Lightroom 3 was released, mostly bringing my many plugins up to speed. Frankly, it's drudgery work, so I took time off to indulge in the simple pleasures of development: building something new.

This new plugin, PhotoSafe, allows you to protect photos from accidental deletion from your Lightroom catalog.

In my case, I never want to delete a photo I've posted on my blog, no matter how boring or mundane. Because I post a lot of boring and mundane photos, I have a lot in my catalog that I [...]

More than two years in the works, Adobe has finally released Lightroom 3. You can download a 30-day trial from Adobe's Lightroom product page.

There are plenty of places you can find all kinds of info about what's new, including:

Victoria Bampton's "What's New in Lightroom 3" post. Victoria's what's-new posts are always the most definitive authority on the subject.

Wade Heninger has a robust "Lightroom Tuesday" post with a huge summary of links.

If you're peeking here at my blog, perhaps you're interested in what this means for my plugins, so that's what this post is about....

First of [...]

Well, it's not "Three Generations" quite in the same way as this shot or this one, but you get the idea.

As you can tell by my lean posting schedule of late, I'm buried with work on my Lightroom plugins, hoping Lr3 doesn't come out before I'm ready. But I had the opportunity to use an amazing lens today, and took it for a short stroll near my place.

The lens -- an all-manual Cosina Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 -- is a full 100% macro, something I'd never used before. I got close with the 64% macro of the Sigma Bigma [...]