Having been busy with travel and sickness and offline projects for so many months, I think the geek in me was itching to produce something new, so to add to yesterday's new plugin for Adobe Lightroom, today I add another: Extended Search.

Due to Lightroom infrastructure limitations, the search interface is not as smooth as it could be, and there's a nasty bug in Lightroom that sometimes rears its head to make things a bit frustrated, so be sure to read the details on the plugin's page while giving it a try.

Because I have so much free time (NOT!), I've turned copious amounts of it into a new plugin for Adobe Lightroom that provides the simple but useful function of telling you what focal lengths your images were shot at.

It's like a stripped down version of ExposurePlot, but integrated into the Lightroom catalog.

Currently the plugin does only 35mm-equivalent focal-length plotting, but I've named it the more generic "data plot" to allow for future expansion.

You can see the version history and download the latest at the plugin's home page.

While filling the kiddy pool mentioned in the previous post, two blades of grass got into the water and made interesting "shadows" on the floor of the pool a foot below.

Here are some close-ups...

Sometimes you see these in larger pools or fountains created by invisible eddies on the surface. They're always pretty and somewhat mysterious because they seem to be shadows of nothing, or at least much larger than the thing that seems to be creating them.

Of course, they aren't shadows at all. I'm sure someone's done all kind of research about them (and I'm sure the [...]

Well, no, not any kind of business like the KidZania play spot in Japan that I've posted much about, but perhaps even better: Grandma and Grandpa's place in Ohio.

Anthony generally spends the summer at my folks' place in rural Ohio, both to bolster his English ability, and, well, to be able to see Grandma and Grandpa. They live in the countryside, so it's always a great experience for him.

We arrived yesterday evening. Our luggage arrived this morning. It didn't take long before he was playing outside, power-washing some heavy machinery. The toy backhoe has been a recurrent theme [...]

In what is almost certainly the most ridiculous thing I have ever done in my entire life, I've created an export-to-Photobucket plugin for Adobe Lightroom.

I fully understand that the intersection of Photobucket users with Lightroom users is exactly the empty set, but Photobucket's API is well documented and they use a kind of authentication that I wanted to test. So there it is.