gbohannon wrote:
Too early to tell. I am using 2018.5. No issue so far regarding bugs, but honestly just started diving into it the last week and really like the layers but do miss the HSL sliders. I just need some time with it to learn all the pluses and minuses. It was the same way when I moved to Lightroom from Aperture when Apple discontinued development for that program. Thanks for the heads up on the migration tool. If I do the switch, I will have to find a standalone tool equal to LensTagger plugin to Lightroom. Hopefully there is one.
George
I know one NameThatLens but I have to dig into it.
CGrindahl wrote:
Speaking of photos with a story. Our friend Rinie who was quite active on the thread many years ago and who took the famous photo of a barge docked near her home in Rotterdam named Nikki, with Nikki the lens sitting on a nearby bollard, celebrated her 65th birthday last Friday. She's been much challenged of late with health problems. I wanted to remind her of the pleasures we find in life and sent a copy of this photo taken in 2012 in Istanbul. I shot it with the 50 f/1.2 AI-s on our first evening there. We enjoyed the local beer. What a wonderful night that was. I was shooting with the much loved D700 at the time.
CGrindahl wrote:
You were definitely on my mind this afternoon Ken. I was driving home after a hike through narrow streets in Fairfax and pulled over to let two cars pass, one of which is the latest model Corvette owned by a woman who for YEARS has parked a series of late model Corvettes next to the entrance of the park I often hike from. I didn't have time to say more than I love her car, but as I drove away I thought about the fact I'd owned three of them in years gone by and have two photographer friends still driving them... you included, of course.
There will definitely be cars offered for sale at this event... it seems folks who pour money into old cars EVENTUALLY reach the point where its time to bail out... usually at a significant loss. I'm afraid my finances are such that I'm not prepared to play that game. I leave it to my friends with money to enjoy such treats. Besides, I doubt I could get in and out of a current model Corvette without wrenching my back. The Camry fits me perfectly... wide leather seat and all...
Corvettes (Porsche too) are easy to enter and exit! They are not the challenge offered by Buggati, or some Lamborghini’s! Samy sat in mine, so did Ray Steele and Reagan. You ONLY live once! 👺
It's been a bruising couple of weeks and sometimes it feels like I can't catch a beat
Down under the waterline and when I've barely broken the surface to inhale, I'm being pushed in again
We missed our flight home from visiting my grandparents' graves... think Chinese Dia de los Muertos
My kid and dad contracted dengue fever... think the Southeast Asian West Nile disease
My brother's partner will be posted to Paris... think I won't be seeing him much often as I used to
And my wife just got laid off... yeah you catch my drift
The trail is dark and dusty. The road, it's kinda rough.
Sorry you've hit such a rough spot Chen. I can sympathize with you for sure. There are days it's tough to be Dora (Finding Nemo, not the explorer)
Zichar wrote:
It's been a bruising couple of weeks and sometimes it feels like I can't catch a beat
Down under the waterline and when I've barely broken the surface to inhale, I'm being pushed in again
We missed our flight home from visiting my grandparents' graves... think Chinese Dia de los Muertos
My kid and dad contracted dengue fever... think the Southeast Asian West Nile disease
My brother's partner will be posted to Paris... think I won't be seeing him much often as I used to
And my wife just got laid off... yeah you catch my drift
The trail is dark and dusty. The road, it's kinda rough.
Chin, hang in there, things will get better. Hope your son and dad are getting over the fever. I liked the name you gave the image - Indestructible.
NightOwl Cat wrote:
Sorry you've hit such a rough spot Chen. I can sympathize with you for sure. There are days it's tough to be Dora (Finding Nemo, not the explorer)
Bummer Chin. We tend to glide through life most of the time, with all the good we encounter pretty much taken for granted... until life drops one of its many challenges in our laps. Often it is health related, but accidents happen and the economy can be fickle with good times in some sectors and challenges in others... leading to lost jobs and tightening finances. Of course we both know that it can get really serious. Dengue fever is not a walk in the park, at least that is what my friend Alan said after contracting the fever while spending a few months in India many years ago. Hope your father and son are mending.
As anyone who has been caught up short by life, we doubtless know the best we can do in those circumstances is the next obvious thing. The is nothing gained from lamenting our situation or the circumstances that led to it. I trust that you are resourceful enough and your family resilient enough that you'll navigate these choppy waters. Stay in touch, whether through the thread or directly with me. I know the time difference makes Skype a challenge, especially for a person with a full-time job AND a family to care for. The best to you all my friend. I'm so glad we had a change to meet and spend some time together last year.
Chris Dees wrote:
Sad to hear this.
We had quite a few laughs when you visited Holland.
Amazing to recall Chris that my visit was in 2012, seven years ago. I'll have to dig back into the archives and find a photo of our famous meeting. Chris was kind enough to pick me up at the airport in Amsterdam and drive both me and Rinie to Rotterdam where we spent a delightful day wandering the riverside and taking photos...
Here are the last three recent photos on my hard drive worthy of processing and posting. The first two are views of Cable Bay, and the third is a tree that looks down into the gorge of the Cowichan River. These photos were shot, respectively, with the 24 f/2.8 NC, 55 f/1.2 SC, and 50 f/1.2 Ai-s mounted on my Fuji X-T2.
