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Happy New Year From Down Under!
Whoa, it's been a while since my last activity on flickr. The reason is I was very busy with some changes in my life and work.
I am back to Australia, this time it's Sydney and I am loving it.
New pics are coming shortly :))
Missed you all, guys!
Grinners are winners .. so they say .
Those sunnies look familiar
Australia Day 16
Story Bridge Hotel
Brisbane
Cycling towards Ballarat from Mt. Bunninyong. Two different treatments of this pic. Took out yellow and left two tone. Typical Aussie landscape. Taken near Ballarat Vic
Aussie Race car at the Shannons Nationals at Sydney's Oran Park. This was Oran Park's final National race meeting, as it is being closed at the end of the year to make way for a housing estate.
It's not every day you look up in your camping ground shower to see (right next to a vent) ASBESTOS warnings.. better a warning that no warning i guess.
St. Vincent & the Grenadines Minister of Sports Frederick Stephenson in conversation with Australia manager Gavin Dovey and One-day captain Shane Watson while Digicel's public relations officer for the OECS Jerry George looks on.
24 July 2015 | (L-R) Patricia Pascoe will be cheering for the Aussie athletics team which includes her son Matthew Pascoe (QLD), while Adine Neill and John Jeffs will have a special cheer for their daughter and grand-daughter Brittney Neil who is competing at her first World Games and is the youngest member of Team Australia. Photo: Peter Muhlbock / Special Olympics Australia.
My first try at painting on an iPad using a Wacom stylus and Procreate painting app.
The stylus is a bit soft but I have not used any other, so any suggestions would be a help.
I must admit that I had a lot of fun using this device.
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...