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After years of cobbling together design work with an underpowered computer and outdated, often unlicensed software, my employer finally invested in some professional equipment for me this week. This Mac Pro computer will be running Adobe's CS3 software.

 

The last few years I've had to be very resourceful to get the results I wanted from the tools I was using. I feel like I picked up a lot of useful skills that way but ultimately the projects took longer than they needed to and the end results were alwaya a little (or a lot) less polished than I thought they could or should be. I had very little formal training in this line of work and I still have so much to learn. But I feel like I know enough to be dangerous now and I'm anxious to see the work I can produce with some precision instruments in my hands.

Turtle Dove (Streptopelia turtur) at Woods Mill, Sussex Wildlife Trust, near Henfield, West Sussex England

Frog Orchid (Coeloglossum viride) on the South Downs, South Downs National Park, Hampshire England

Tomice, Poland, July 2011

 

A cover-up is an attempt, whether successful or not, to conceal evidence of wrong-doing, error, incompetence or other embarrassing information.

 

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• NIKON D700 • ¹⁄₂₅₀ sec at f/2.8 (0 EV) • ISO 200 • Pattern metering • Aperture priority • no flash • 70-200 mm f/2.8 @ 200 mm •

 

• NIKON D700 // AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II at 200 mm (VR On) // Exposure - 1/250 @ f/2.8 (0EV), ISO 200 // Multi-segment metering, Aperture-priority AE exposure // White Balance - Auto // AF - On, AF-C, Dynamic Area (9 points), Primary AF Point - D3, Used AF Point - D3 // Shooting Mode - Single-Frame // FOV - 8.8 deg (0.22 m), Focus Distance - 1.41 m, DOF - 0.01 m (1.41 - 1.42), Hyperfocal - 475.46 m // Nikon NEF Compressed, 14bit, Adobe RGB •

 

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Snowy Egret (Egretta thula) at Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach California USA

 

oops, I forgot this set from our recent family holiday in Southern California, our 13th early morning out exploring our favourite, or favorite, reserves in the SoCal region.

Putting them against the window was not my choice.

Ru-oh. What opens Wordperfect files from 1995 (on a Mac Pro, running Leopard)?

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Answer: AbiWord 2.45. Whoo hooo!

Wallhausen, Germany, May 2011

 

There wasn't enough light to stay at ISO200 and still keep the shutter at 1/1000s so I had to bump ISO to 3200. D700 really showed its prowess in these conditions. In the end everyone was happy - the rider, the jumping machine, the trainer, and the photographer.

 

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• NIKON D700 • ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ sec at f/4.0 (0 EV) • ISO 3200 • Pattern metering • Shutter priority • no flash • 70-200 mm f/2.8 @ 120 mm •

 

• NIKON D700 // AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II at 120 mm (VR Off) // Exposure - 1/1000 @ f/4.0 (0EV), ISO 3200 // Multi-segment metering, Shutter speed priority AE exposure // White Balance - Auto // AF - On, AF-C, Dynamic Area (9 points), Primary AF Point - C6 (Center), Used AF Point - C6 // Shooting Mode - Continuous // FOV - 16.9 deg (4.45 m), Focus Distance - 14.96 m, DOF - 3.76 m (13.31 - 17.08), Hyperfocal - 119.82 m // Nikon NEF Compressed, 14bit, Adobe RGB •

 

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Yellow Disco Fungus (Bisporella citrina) at Ebernoe Common, Sussex Wildlife Trust, near Petworth West Sussex England

Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) at RSPB Medmerry, West Sussex England

Yay! I made it through the whole 365 project! My 365 photo set looms in a pair of browser windows in the background.

The 10th day, and back to the park

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus carolinensis) at El Dorado Regional Park, near Long Beach California USA

Dog Stinkhorn Fungus (Mutinus caninus), at Wepham Wood, Angmering, South Downs National Park, West Sussex England

 

A brief trip back into this great ancient woodland, after being advised of the Dog Stinkhorn from two very kind and helpful friends, Thanks Natasha and Andrew, third times a charm ;-)

2 x 2.8Ghz Xeon, 8 GB RAM

First try using LightroomCC only, very fast on MacPro. Presets for BW

The good folks at Apple India recently sent us a mighty beast from Apple's Product Line-Up - The 8-core Mac Pro.

 

Here's a look at the beast

Geastrum britannicum

Midhurst, West Sussex England

 

This is the 3rd season this new British species has been found in Sussex. Dawn and I found the first ever in the county in 2014 and after finding it again in 2015 we reported it to the SxBRC and to the Sussex County Recorder for Fungi. With his help and the taking of samples, it was confirmed by Kew in May 2015 as the new British species and this year it has appeared again in large numbers at this site.

Peregrine (Falco peregrinus) at RSPB Chichester Cathedral Peregrines. Chichester Cathedral, West Sussex England

Hybrid Bee x Fly Orchid (Ophrys x pietzschii) (Ophrys apifera x Ophrys insectifera) in Somerset England

Installing Adobe Photoshop CS3

Gotta redo it because the camera moved when I was trying to get the shots (as you can see from the notes)

The holy grail of Apple products, and it'll be all mine in just under 2 weeks when it ships.

 

Mac Pro 2 x 2.66Ghz, 3GB RAM, 250GB + 500GB HDD, BT + AE. 30" Apple Cinema Display.

 

Peregrine (Falco peregrinus) at RSPB Chichester Peregrines 2016, Chichester Cathedral, West Sussex England

Replaced a Mac Mini as a dedicated media center, iTunes and iPhoto library, video editing and converting as well as a non-stop downloading beast.

One 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon "Nehalem" processor

8GB (four 2GB) memory

640GB hard drive 1

+ additional 1TB hard drive

18x double-layer SuperDrive

NVIDIA GeForce GT 120 with 512MB

Rear of the mac. All paneling has been removed to help with exhausting heat

Project 365 Day 57

I love the Macpro

 

Nikon D700 f3.2 ISO 1250 Nikon SB600 bounce on the wall

Bunny and I were mucking around and decided to check out what the most asssspensiffff possible configuration for the new mac pro was. We were quite tickled at the final amount - really wasn't as much as I'd guessed it was going to be.

 

Ah well. All this imaginary money. Going to crazy computers like that (half the things I added on to my imaginary mac pro I have no idea what to do with) and to my equally imaginary incredible range of lenses.

Hummingbird Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) at Sandwich Bay, SBBOT, Kent England

 

Very fortunate to find this location, where several of these magnificent and beautiful creatures spend a lot of time feeding and resting on the beach

 

4th and final day of our summer holiday in Kent, 09 July 2015

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