Coming Soon to your world - 2014

Another year closes, and as always is a time for a little looking back, and plenty of looking forward. There have been some successes for me in terms of health, and photography of course. Now firmly entrenched in Architectural photography, and with music of course.

Had some great visits to Cambridge Modern Jazz, live music is so good to hear, and will continue that actively, for no reason other than it is so enjoyable, the challenges of equipment and lighting add to the interest, for me.

Unfortunately had a stomach bug this holiday, meaning I had to stay close to home (and loo), but gave me an opportunity to do some computer housekeeping, I have multiple drives loaded with files, and many duplicates scattered around, so I downloaded a trial of TuneUp Utilities 2014, both to find the files, delete them, clean registry and fine tune other settings.
Heartily recommend it, of course use with care, but it is has livened up my pc a lot, and has made a real difference to speed.
TuneUp Utilities 2014

15 Day trial available, then get from Amazon (cheaper)

Using Lightroom 5 now,  which is resource hungry but discovering many advantages to it, so glad I spent the time with it, rather than use Photoshop for everything. Enabling me to go back over the Library, see what is worthwhile keeping, and ditch the rest. Have been tardy in that respect, not clearing folders frequently. Festival folders generally get used once and lay fallow for quite a while afterwards. Deleting all the web sized files, too, so easy to just make some via Lightroom.

My new website is now online, and placing more images there, and intend to expand the text content too.


Photography website

Skip Mcdonald at Musicport

Using Facebook quite a lot, it is so immediate and the Groups are great for sharing information and shots.