It started with iPhoto. I exhausted the editing options really quickly. So I upgraded to….

….. Aperture 1 because I wanted to maintain and stay with the ‘Apple’ interphase. Later, I upgraded to….

….. Aperture 2, naturally. All this while, I have been reasonably happy with Aperture 2 but not entirely satisfied. By now (end of 2008), I was taking photography more seriously, which saw the purchase of Nikon D700, prime lenses, tripods, filter and the works. While trolling the numerous online resources available for an alternative to Aperture 2, I eventually decided to jump the boat and….

….. Photo Mechanic, Capture NX2 and Color Efex Pro 3.0. It was a GREAT workflow.
Photo Mechanic is so simple to use as an image management platform.
Capture NX2 worked really really well with Nikon’s RAW file -NEF.
Color Efex Pro 3.0 was hours and hours of fun.
It was a GREAT workflow……… until I went retro and decided to shoot film again (end of 2009). With film, I just needed to digitalise the image, sort, manage and do some basic curve adjustments and mild sharpening for online publishing. This workflow was getting too long winded and laborious. Scan, import, rename, export, file format conversion, import, export………….. I needed something more efficient. So…..

….. Aperture 3 is only AUD 99 (App Store). Will try this over the next few months.

Well… sometimes, I don’t just sit. I actually get up and complicate my life……..

Here is my first Aperture 3 export.

Anyways, one thing came up recently in the forum,

Do you go through periods where you don’t take any pictures? and does that make you feel some form of guilt?

To which a fellow member (dave lackey) replied beautifully,

No, that is simply life. Music would be nothing without the pauses between active notes and the same is with life. You make your own music as you go along with pauses now and then, until the end.

It is what you do overall that determines your outcome, so enjoy the breaks and come back each time re-invigorated with passion!

Hope you are having a great sunday afternoon.

Never got around to really sort and arrange the images for viewing until today.
Better late than never I guess.
So here it is, some pictures that I’d like to share with you. Hope you like them.
02-06PT-TriX-5-15.nef 03-06PT-TriX-5-16.nef 05-04PT-XP2-10-36.nef 06-07PT-HP5-5-02.nef 07-09PT-TriX-6-07.nef 08-09PT-TriX-6-10.nef 09-06PT-TriX-5-29.nef 10-06PT-TriX-5-32.nef 11-06PT-TriX-5-31.nef 13-07PT-HP5-5-13.nef 14-07PT-HP5-5-16.nef 15-07PT-HP5-5-17.nef 16-09PT-TriX-6-14.nef 17-07PT-HP5-5-18.nef 18-09PT-TriX-6-13.nef 20-09PT-TriX-6-16.nef 21-09PT-TriX-6-18.nef 22-09PT-TriX-6-21.nef 23-11PT-TriX-8-18.nef 24-09PT-TriX-6-25.nef 25-09PT-TriX-6-26.nef 26-09PT-TriX-6-32.nef 27-10PT-TriX-7-01.nef 28-07PT-HP5-5-23.nef 29-07PT-HP5-5-31.nef 31-10PT-TriX-7-08.nef 32-10PT-TriX-7-15.nef 33-11PT-TriX-8-03.nef 34-11PT-TriX-8-11.nef 36-10PT-TriX-7-26.nef 37-10PT-TriX-7-29.nef 38-11PT-TriX-5-MP13_454.nef 39-11PT-TriX-5-MP19_455.nef 39a-43-11PT-TriX-8-16.nef 40-11PT-TriX-5-MP28_461.nef 45-11PT-TriX-8-30.nef 46-13PT-TriX-9-10.nef 47-13PT-TriX-9-12.nef 48-13PT-TriX-9-11.nef 49-13PT-TriX-9-16.nef 50-13PT-TriX-9-19.nef 51-13PT-TriX-9-14.nef 52-13PT-TriX-9-26.nef 53-13PT-TriX-9-20.nef 54-13PT-TriX-9-23.nef 56-13PT-TriX-9-25.nef 58-17PT-TriX-10-01A.nef 60-17PT-TriX-10-07_510.nef

Come to think of it, I have been pretty much ‘Burnie bound’ throughout winter – there hasn’t been much variety to my photography lately.
……… things will get interesting hopefully, as I am heading to ACT and Queensland for a total of 9 days. Leaving next Tuesday.
Will bring along my ‘internet stick’ so should be able to post little updates here and there.

Meanwhile, this is Dove River, Enchanted Walk, Cradle Mountain.