Picking up from the sunset photo from the other day's A Bit of Color and Thunder (which I posted not realizing that the next day would offer an amazing sunset of its own), here is a collection of photos from our spring trip to Awaji Island with somewhat of a geometric bend...

In the large version, you can see individual branches on the trees. Not too bad for almost 14km away, handheld.

I was gratified not only to be able to pick up the camera today, but to actually remember how to use it. Kyoto had a mild version this evening of the sunset described in my November 2008 post "Today's Sunset: the Deepest, Truest Orange I Have Ever Seen". Like then, I was at my condo and just ran up to the top floor to catch the view.

The picture above represents the true experience of what you'd see at that [...]

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 [...]

I can't believe that I haven't posted anything this month besides Lightroom stuff. Last year I posted 2,082 photos in 268 posts, but my running rate for this month extrapolates out to zero real posts. Where did Spring 2010 go? (The answer is "Lightroom 3" of course, but today is the first time since its release that I'm actually just using it as a normal user, on my own photos, for pleasure. Ah, but what a pleasure it is...)

Anyway, still no time for a real post, but I wanted to put some color up to enliven myself, so here's [...]

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 [...]