Shocker, it’s been awhile since I last updated…again. I’ve got tons of photos to go through, there are just a few network issues with the new place, oh and time.

Within the last month we went and saw some incredibly exciting semi-final Australian Open tennis action, along with visiting both the Great Ocean Road and Tasmania. All of which you should start to see trickle on to the site.

Today’s image is from Tasmania, and specifically along the 9-mile beach. The day we arrived there had been a storm and the bay was incredibly turbulent. That lead to many strange and colorful sea creatures being washed up on shore. This is the underside of a sea star and is currently my new desktop wallpaper.

I still can’t get over how incredibly gorgeous the water and landscapes are there. Can’t wait to get back!

In other news, the D4 and the D800/800E were announced. Based on the type of photography I am into, I’m definitely looking at picking up a D800/800E (probably the E, just because). I’m not sure how I’m going to transition from a 6MP camera to a 36MP camera, but I’m sure it’ll be yet another challenge.

In our back patio/garden area, we have a rose bush that is also inhabited by some bougainvillea.  It’s actually pretty cool because the rose bush just finished blooming, and now we have the red of the bougainvillea popping through various areas.  I just wish the rose bush wasn’t so thorny.  Talk about a pain to maintain.

I really like this picture even though it doesn’t fall within my normal likes.  I think it is more to do with the colors than anything.  It was captured at dusk in the Chinese Gardens in Dunedin.

Less than a week until I’m back on a plane heading home!

More coolness from the Speight’s Brewery in Dunedin.  I hadn’t been using my macro lens all that much until I went there.  It definitely reminded me how much I love that lens.  It also reminded me how much I love the industrial pictures.  Industry and landscapes; somehow that combination makes sense in my head.

Less than 25 days left in Singapore!

Yum, beer!  I wish I could get a reliable supply of Speight’s here in the states.  Every type they had was quite delicious, but the Old Dark was probably my favorite.  I’m getting thirsty just thinking about it!

Yes, I know, it has been awhile.  I actually am sort of in the process of changing this all around, but in the mean time, I wanted to put my new dual monitor setup to good use.  Talk about easier when you have 2 identical monitors, calibrated, and can move stuff between then in lightroom and photoshop.  Ahhh.  Anyways, now that a 2.5 year project is finally under wraps, I may have enough time to actually play with this stuff some more.  In other news, I got engaged over Thanksgiving of ‘09, and we are working on planning the wedding.  We are looking forward to that, and will hopefully have a large number of pictures to pull from there.

This image was actually from the Barbados trip we took in June of ‘08.  I haven’t been able to actually get out much to photograph anything new, so I will be digging a through a lot of archives.  I have a ton of excellent pictures that I just never got around to publishing.

Man, this feels good.

Not to be confused with the other Torch Flower, this was the one from Barbados.  It’s amazing how waxy and thick the petals of this flower was.  They were all over the place at the Flower Forest.

More images from Barbados.  This one was from the flower forest.  Definitely an interesting spot, but we were not there during the busy season.  As Yow-Yow put it, the beetle was de-flowering the hibiscus.  The snails seemed to like to do that too

Yeah, it’s been awhile again   I think I’ve figured out some of my workflow issues.  It’s amazing how much better Lightroom works when it’s on a wired connection to your source images than a wireless.  It’s actually usable, craziness.

In the process I’ve also started my Lightroom database all over again.  I’ve actually created a bunch of tags and am rating everything.  That’s a lot of work, especially when I’ve got over 6k photos to go through.  It’s definitely one of those things that needs to be done once, and then never again.  However it has been taking me the better part of my free time to do.  In the process of doing this though, I’ve found a lot of awesome pictures that I simply forgot about.  This being one of them.  Contrary to the name, this is actually taken in Chicago on Washington and Michigan Ave.

I hope I can keep up some sort of consistency now.  If not, at least a few times a month instead of nothing for so long.

More fun from the trip.  I stayed out two nights ago a little late, and that’s why there was no update.  Oops.  This one has be done with a new technique I’m trying with curves.  I really like how it turned out.  You can hit up the bulk section under waterton to see the original.  Quite a bit different.