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On July 1 a vehicle going the opposite direction failed to yield and turned left across Katie's path. A broken ankle (Hairline fracture) and concussion was the result.
She was very lucky, this could have been a whole lot worse. She was wearing her seat belt and the car did what it was supposed to do to protect her. A few hours in ER and she was out with a mega, several day headache, and on crutches for we don't know how long.
...but not because it doesn't look good now, because it does. Annie was supposed to be a redhead from the beginning but, when I tried this wig on him when he had his first faceup (that I accidentally destroyed) this wig looked AWFUL on him! Like, SUPER DUPER AWFUL! I then gave this wig away to my Volks School D boy. But, I decided for curiousity's sake to try this on him now and see what happened. Unfortunately, it looks friggin GREAT! But, I already gave the wig away to another character and I now have a completely different idea for his new wig. So, he will remain a temp blonde while I remain bitter that NOW he looks good in red. LOL! :D
I always shoot RAW and up until now I always shot with Nokon gear only. Hence I have only used Niks excellent (its a love or hate type of software) Capture NX to process my RAW files. Recently I bought a Fuji X100 so with that I needed to search out a RAW processing program for it. Natural choice was Adobe Lightroom. New version just out, many revisions and also hugely popular.
I installed the demo version and went ahead and learnt how to use it. While it had many features that I would never use, the main thing of converting RAW files worked well and I achieved good results without too much effort. Lightroom though was very slow on my not so new but not so old system. But I could live with it.
I looked at the pricing and in Australia its sold for $187 ex GST (ie download version). In USA its $149. Being an Aussie I get charged 25% over the USA price. Not cool. I tried a quick method to fudge it and "pretend" I am American but that failed. I know I can setup proxies, mail addresses to get around this but I didn't feel like going to these lengths just to buy a product.
In the end I gave up on Lightroom and tried different RAW processors. None really caught my eye too much, plus they were quite expensive. It wasn't until late last week I came across Corel After Shot Pro. Based on the old Bible Pro, I decided to give it a go. Impressive, very impressive. Not as polished as Lightroom, but also not as bloated, and much, much faster. The best bit is that I pay same price whether I am in Sydney, San Francisco or Hong Kong. And the better bit is that the price of $53 USD (using coupon code "ARTCOREL10" for 10% Off ) is about $80 cheaper than the Adobe stuff.
Fail Adobe. And I hope this enquiry will result in some changes. Some Adobe execs need to realise that if you buy a coffee in Sydney they will be charged the same price as the Aussie dude standing next to them or the Chinese woman sitting reading the paper sipping her coffee...
I don't mess with logo design stuff to much. I know this sucks 90%, but i liked it! haha
Illustrator and PS
Quando tudo parece certo... eis que... dá errado... hahahaha
Fundição #FAIL
(eu sou o que está com camiseta amarela!)
gravado pelo amigo Valmir
wilderness hidden in the suburbia
Altona
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Minolta x-300 / Minolta 35-70mm f/3.5 / Expired Kodak Portra 160NC (2008)
A poorly heated office, led to a power shortage, which led me to working from home today. I'm sure I'm more productive when I work from home. It was certainly warmer here!
Poorly Q-Park/Purple Parking Heathrow Scania Fencer F1 shuttle bus YN72ZPR gets a helping hand back to the Pits from J&A Recovery's very smart 2017 Scania 6x2 (+2) NR05WAP, fitted with NRC Quick-Swap breakdown equipment.
This was brought to the world's attention via the blog Hella Whimsical. Note the use of Comic Sans (I know, it's really a WTF moment). It's as if the office admin was asked to make a logo for a new retail store so he pulled up Word and centered a 24 point masterpiece in one big cliche and sent it to the sign shop. This is like having someone who only plays rock band write a song about the essence of music.