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The tulips are starting to wilt but there will be a lot more flowers, don't you worry.

I'm starting to figure out a workflow for this site, and also for tooting via RSS. I'm looking for new and improved commenting for the site, and may even revive my posting to mastodon solution for comments.

We went for a quick wander around Cole Harbour Heritage Park today, which was a "mistake" since the MacKay bridge was closed for the weekend and that meant that we had to either risk getting stuck on the bridge if there was an accident, or drive around the basin.

I'm happy to say that I think I have something resembling an image processing workflow, but I'm not sure that I actually like it. But I'm not going back to Lightroom, and CaptureOne doesn't have the image handling that I would need to switch, so here we are.

We headed …

Spring is here in Halifax and we even had some rain.

Sometime last year I sold my old flash, it wasn't something that I had used in a few years. Then I decided that I wanted to up my macro quality, and the first thing I learned is that I needed a smaller aperature which meant I needed more light. To …

When my Adobe subscription was up for renewal, and they were increasing the cost by something stupid, and offering not much added service. This is on top of the AI nonsense that they are adding to everything I decided to cancel my subscription.

I am still having a hard time …

We haven't been out a lot lately, I'm blaming the crappy weather and too much work, but this weekend was nice and I didn't have any deadlines.

We wanted to go to Frog Pond, but a lot of people has similar ideas as us, so we went exploring a bit …

While I was wandering around I thought the bright clouding sky would give a chance to try the built in HDR function on my Canon R6 again.

Its not a feature that I use often, but its a lot faster than taking a bunch of shots and doing the same …

Yesterday was the first time that I went for a walk towards downtown in a while. I took my 35mm lens with me and was able to get a couple pictures I liked.