Beware!

Can’t remember where I saw this exchange, but someone once accused a lecturer of glossing over some difficult issues. “My dear boy”, he replied brazenly, “when one is skating on thin ice, it’s best to go quickly”.

Full aperture

I’ve decided that Quentin was right about Aperture as a tool for managing large numbers of images. What finally tipped me over the edge was finding that it was the best way of handling RAW images. It’s also very good for dealing with the archiving of large filesets. And the Loupe tool (shown above) provides a useful way of checking the detail of an image without having to zoom it.

Dreaming…

Tilly, dreaming of a white Christmas, perhaps. Or of the robin she killed yesterday. Cats are horrible sometimes.

Later: In the interest of fairness and accuracy, it has been pointed out to me that it could have been her sister who killed the robin.

Contrast

An asymptotic approach to a Christmas card? Shot with the lens wide open. But it gives the impression that it’s really a collage, with the frosted greenery pasted over out-of-focus berries.