The End of the Year 2009
Geez. The last month really flew by! Seems like Thanksgiving was just last week and now Christmas is in the rearview mirror.
The Blackhawks continue winning. The Bulls…well…they show up. And the Bears. I haven’t even watched an entire game since week 4. Too hard to watch. The Cubs have a new owner and finally got rid of Milton Bradley. The White Sox haven’t done all that much yet. Thank God for the Hawks. This could have been a really long winter with no sports!
I haven’t been making that many pictures lately. Now that my sister is into photography, she takes all the family stuff. She does a much better job at it too! I have shot some high school basketball and got a chance to go to the United Center to photograph a pretty good high school game there. That is a great place to shoot. Talk about good lighting! Sure does make going back to shoot in the gyms around here a little tough. Other than that, not a whole lot of pictures for some reason. It’s getting a little boring going out by myself shooting lately. Must be the weather.
I have however, been spending way too much a lot of time on the ole ‘puter. I have been a subscriber to Kelby Online Training for awhile and have been catching up on a lot of video classes there. Check it out if you have time. Good stuff. Better for you than Farmville I’m thinking. I have also been getting used to the new beta version of Adobe Lightroom. I use Lightroom to upload and organize my pictures. I also do most of my basic editing there. I have learned a lot this year about editing in Lightroom and most of the time now, that’s all I need to do to photos. I have plugins that allow me to post to facebook and Flickr with the click of a button. How can it get easier than that? It looks like LR3 will make things even easier.
If you don’t use Lightroom but would like to check it out, you can download the beta version for free here. You can use it free until April 30, 2010. Definitely worth a try.
Well, that’s it for now. Time to be lazy and surf the interwebs for awhile…….
Go Hawks!
Hey Jeff, if your ever feeling bored again, give me a call. Always looking to get out and shoot with someone.
Sounds like a plan Nick! You’ll be hearing from me. Wanna shoot some wrestling @ LWC? I’ll get you the details this week when I get them.