I mentioned before that I like new software. I have recently loaded Adobe's terrifying CS3 suite into my iMac, after stuffing some new RAM into the machine. Photoshop is excellent now, and CS4 looks even more exciting, but I don't suppose I'll get to play with that for a while.
While we're talking about photography, I took delivery this week of my new battery grip and the wireless remote shutter release gizmo. It all works, so I will be experimenting with remote imaging soon. I also purchase Tim Daly's excellent book 'Creating Exhibition-Quality Digital Prints'. It's Tim Daly's third book about using digital imaging technique, all of which are great. Along with David Hobby at strobist.com, Tim Daly is my guru. I learned so much from him. I think it's because he relates Photoshop practice to darkroom technique, which I understand.
Meanwhile, the world's economy has broken. Pleasure is to be had seeing CEOs of failed financial institutions getting roasted for their profligate lifestyles in US hearings. Watching Iceland's banks all fail was pretty alarming, taking £8bn of UK savings with them, and kick-starting a new era of Icelandic/UK hostilities. I remember the cod war. I think this is more serious. Fish-related war can never really be taken too seriously. But then, I can't imagine people actually getting physically attacked in the high seas of failing finance. It reminds me of Terry Gilliam's film, The Crimson Permanent Assurance. The man is a visionary and a genius.
Oh, so, uh, the novel...
It creaks along in between everything else that occupies my time. We are flipping between New York and the journey from Kansas to Montana that Jefferson is making with Lewis, and Jefferson is filling Lewis in about Operation Shift. Once I have finished this part, the end-game of the San Francisco period will be next, followed by the final section.
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