Topsy Turvy Day

Well I have been bluebell hunting this morning.  Again encouraging puzzled looks as I stalked through the undergrowth of Swithland woods in search of the illusive photograph.  How do I capture the bluebell wood without being a cliche?  Still no real answer to this but I think the photographs are getting better.

As I look at these examples of this morning's hunt I find myself again coming under the influence of John Blakemore.  There is a fascinating article about Blakemore in the latest issue of Ag.  Blakemore has been a long term influence on my work going back to the 1970's.  He is usually associated with black and white photographs, many of the Derbyshire peak district.  In this latest article his colour work is explored.   I do find quite a bit of crossover.

Now why topsy turvy?  Well as usual I cocked my backing up of files and so one vital file was not backed up.  What does this mean?   It means that I have got to spend sometime tomorrow recreating the file and then my back up program for my images will work again.  It is not the worst oversight I have done but nonetheless it is frustrating.   At least I was able to get out for a few hours and makes some photographs.  When will I ever learn?

One final thought.  I mentioned this the other day about Safari but I feel I need to expand on why I disliked what I saw with the beta of the Apple Safari browser.  Why Why Why?   Why do software companies have to keep playing around with things.  The new interface is a mess.  I am sure if you are a Mac user this may fit more closely to your experience, it certainly looks like iTunes - however as a usable interface I find it very confusing.  Hopefully by the time the final version is release there will be some series reworking of the interface.  What I want from a browser is simplicity.  It is not the reason why I surf the internet but just the conduit.  It should be as unobtrusive as possible.  Please Apple do not spoil my favourite browser.   

The rebuild has started

Well here we go again. It doesn't seem like four months have passed since I rebuilt my system but it is. Anyway progress to date. I have installed Adobe Lightroom and the previous catalogue appears to be working - this is a real relief. I have uploaded the current years image files, only 60GB and am now starting on last years - 160 GB. The only hitch, and it really isn't a big one, is that I downloaded the beta version of Safari - not a good idea - and I have had to delete this and will reinstall the latest offical version.

So sofar so good. I am going out to test my new camera and hopefully when I come back I will have another year's image files uploaded.

The blogosphere - its all too confusing to me

Lost in the Fog

I've just spent an hour or so trying to workout a better way of navigating the blogosphere.  I am failing badly!   I am not sure whether it is my age or what but every corner I turn seems to lead to another dead end (Cliche alert!)

It all started with this morning's paper.  I have been thinking about finding out a bit more on the subject of blogs and blogging.  I find this very addictive even though I have no idea how many people are reading this stuff.  I am wondering off the point.   The paper.   Well according to the paper it is a very simple thing to navigate and get set up.  Not for me it isn't.   I am blundering around not really coming up with anything that really makes my boat rock.   One of the recommendations from the article was to use Firefox.  

Now I used to be a keen Firefoxer but not anymore.  I love the Safari interface compared to Firefox - it looks much slicker and well developed.  I know that many of the sites are not optimised to run on Safari - when this happen I always copy the link into IE, which is the default browser for any site.  If something doesn't run in IE then the site is at fault not you.

I'm wondering again.   So what to do?  How should I try and resolve this problem?  I think the way forward is probably the best advice I have ever been given.  Do nothing.  This sounds like a cop out and in a way it is.  However, at least you can't make matters worse by continual tinkering and in many cases a solution becomes apparent.  Not very proactive I know but it does work.

Having just reread this I am not sure it is worth publishing.  However, I am addicted to bogging and so I will publish - well anything.