It is very difficult setting up the new workstation when they forgot to put the power cable back in the box.

One thing I keep learning when adopting old gear is not to render judgment until you work with it for awhile. Earlier on I said that the Fujinon was just okay compared with my other 50mm primes and while that may be true, it isn't that much far off my Takumar which makes it pretty good.

There is another Lightroom update to version 2.4 that adds RAW support to various new cameras including a wackload of digital Hasselblads but also includes some minor fixes. According to the Readme it fixes problems with cropping and with DNG exporting not allowing certain metadata fields.

Download it here.

Workflow is pretty good now

Incidentally, my existing installation of Lightroom 2.2 is working pretty nicely after I went with the method suggested by Frank Roberts which was to keep my RAW files on my NAS but to use a catalog based on a local hard drive. In addition, I backup my catalog to my NAS so thereby satisfying my requirements for redundant storage.

It's all over the web now. The Kodachrome era is over with the announcement that Kodak is stopping production of it. Only one place actually develops Kodachrome anyway because of its time-intensive development but now every supply of it is now the very last of the medium. It does seem a little sad. I've never used it personally but I've listened to the song a lot ;)

Ahhh, here's the song:

(embedded Youtube below here because I'm too retarded to figure out why IE truncates it the way it does)

I'm not sure what it is but the middle photo by Maggie Steber of a Lakota boy gaining the trust of an abused horse really gets me.

It is part of a rehabilitation program that pairs a young Sioux in a drug rehab program with a horse that has suffered abuse.

Strategy 4: Substance Abuse Treatment and Relapse Prevention

In an effort to implement a horse program to provide basic riding skills and horse care to youth, the Adopt-A-Horse Program was created. The program was also designed to complement the Wolakota Yukini Wicoti project and to adopt 5 horses to youth. The activities completed were roping schools, riding lessons, Exceptional Education Riding Program, horse health care and grooming seminars, care and maintenance of riding tack, horse facility management, confirmation classes, adoption policies, horse showmanship classes, livestock judging, rodeo judging, leisure riding, horse training seminars, stable maintenance, trail riding, fencing, and an instructional video on horse trailing. The program also included participation in the Headstart Parade, Viet Nam Veterans Parade, Tribal Labor Day Fair Parade and Play Day.

Out of the beginning of the roll he came, on FIRE, street rocket growling underneath him...

Well that's how it looks to me.

That burning part of the emulsion is the beginning of the negative. I still haven't figured out exactly where the roll begins and when I can really start counting frames. I load it into the Pentax K1000, slap the back shut, and usually wind it once and start shooting.