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As you are probably accustomed already, I try to upload from time to time a new photo album to Picasa and here.

This time there is a mix of photos from New York, Rome and Toledo included. And even one picture from Bucharest. There is no particular connection between all of them, just the fact that I liked them and wanted to share the album with you. So enjoy and have a nice week.

I finally managed to setup my laptop to also use my Philips LCD, and Lightroom is pretty happy with this change. Now I can enjoy multi-monitor features – and the truth is that it is a pretty nice improvement. I still have to test how Photoshop works with this change, but I am pretty sure there will be also an improvement.

As a test to see how this change my way of working, I fired up Lightroom and processed a few more photos. They are the ones in this post. I hope you like them – and consider them some kind of Easter present. How could I not post something today?

On another note – but still related to photography – I am shopping for a new hard drive. My trusty WD which was intended as backup drive became main working copy, and now I have no backup. I really hope I have no hard drive failure in the next week. Because of this, I also checked Lightroom catalog to see how many photos I have catalogued. By the last count I have 47k photos, give or take a few thousands. I intend to do a special post – or maybe a virtual gallery – once I reach the 50k milestone.

And now, enjoy the photos.

Today brings a new set of photos that I just finished to post-process. I know that I should probably just upload one huge set and then let you enjoy them, but remember that the blog name is “bits and bobs”. So you get photo bits every day

I am considering of starting a special page based on the concept of “Photo a day”. What do you think? Each day I upload one new photo.

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Today I added a few photos to Picasa gallery.

They are very different from the photos I usually upload – these are heavily processed in Adobe Lightroom. I hope you find them interesting. Some are different interpretations from the black and white gallery I uploaded last night. I think some look better in black and white, and some better differently processed. Of course, one of the beauty of Lightroom and post processing is that you can get as many variations as you wish.

Enjoy! 

Take one part Lightroom, one part beer and one part playfulness and the results might be surprising. This evening, bored of hostels, reviews, train schedules and other plannings I decided to experiment a bit. Some of the results might be ‘too much’, but keep in mind that I was in the ‘what does this slider do’ mood.

All of the photos below were taken in color, but the power of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom post processing leaves no pixel unturned.