30 Squares – Page 2 – life in the old lane

June 21, 2009June 22, 2009

Sunday

Not much of a day for picture taking. Wasn’t even all that interested in playing with Lightroom. Did find the rather British looking manhole cover next to the shopping mall.

What I did do, was continue on my path to a “less paper” lifestyle. Most of the old stuff just got tossed. But, some got scanned and stored as PDFs. I recommend adding gscan2pdf to your Linux scanning tool kit. The only issue being I can only get OCR to work in German. I have very little German stuff to scan. But, I am not planning on OCRing anything anyhow. I am PDF-ing.

I did not toss my original birth certificate with little footprints. Don’t know why I am keeping it. I know that I was born.

I did toss – and did not scan – my original Internet account. From 1995. There were 8 single spaced typed pages telling you how to get online. I also tossed all of my old receipts for hardware and software. Didn’t even think about adding up how much money I have spent. Note that in early 1995 I was running a dual boot system, DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1.

June 19, 2009June 21, 2009

Bee and Cone Flower

It didn’t rain today. Maybe I can stop working on the ark. The big event of the day was lounging around the pool.

And, taking pictures of bees over at the Nature Conservancy. Panasonic L1 with cheap-ass Oly macro lens.

The bee is number 6 of 30 in the 30Squares series.

June 18, 2009June 18, 2009

From FilmTime

Another rainy day. Decided to see what Lightroom would do for old snapshots. These are from North Dakota – summer of 1997, I think. Click on them for the big version.

Really impressed with Lightroom. It is silky smooth. Might even be worth 200 bucks.

In addition to WordPress and NextGen Gallery, now my iPod wants to be updated. Apple wants $10 for the upgrade. But, it doesn’t seem to be worth it to me. So, the iPod upgrade is being ignored.

June 17, 2009June 17, 2009

The Desk

Rain today – just played around with a picture I took of the top of my desk. My real desk top, not the computer one.

In my volunteer job, I am a paper wrangler. We are buried under mountains of paper. So, as of this afternoon I vowed to “Go Less-Paper” at home. I am already pretty paperless – but, little scraps of paper do pile up. Well, that is why I have a scanner. And a shredder. And a trash can.

June 16, 2009June 16, 2009

Construction

Don’t you just hate it when your commute to the office is interrupted by path construction?

This was not the best image of the day. Got more magnolias to play with. My route to work is infested with magnolias. But, I wanted to test out Lightroom doing something other than flowers.

Still resisting upgrading my version of WordPress and NextGen Gallery. Why do I resist upgrading free software, whilst being so willing to upgrade cameras and iPods at the first hint of “new improved”?

Construction is today’s Square. 3 of 30.

June 15, 2009June 16, 2009

Magnolia

Went to see the doctor again today. Things are still out of order and require adjusting. But, hey, I am still here and I have a month before I have to go back.

Magnolia is today’s Square. 2 of 30.

June 14, 2009June 14, 2009

Na Kaimalei

Yesterday, I did not take in the nude bike race, but rather the Hawaiian Cultural Festival at the Indian Museum.

Decided to take Lightroom for a 30 day test drive. Since it is a $200 chunk of not-Unix software – it has got to prove its worth. So, to that end, I am starting a 30 Squares in 30 Days photography project. Each day a new – square – photo. Processed with Lightroom.

And just for comparing. This is the version of the same image that I did using PhotoShop Elements earlier this morning. It really doesn’t seem to be worth $200 for the difference. But, have 29 more days to play.