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Lake Geneva (Lac Laman) in crisp day. This is taken from Montreux, Switzerland looking across Lake Geneva towards France. You can rent boats, go swimming and take long walks along the lake. The lake was formed by thousands of years of glaciers melting from the Rhone Valley.
One of my favorite things to do is get a Turkish Kabab and sit on the side drinking a Denner. :)
This chalet just signifies a lot to me. First it was my brother's home for a long time and second I spent lots of holidays here. third waking up and seeing this view in the morning will just really make you humble. and for me really demonstrate that there is a God and that he is creative and that he finds natural beauty a good thing.
over the weekend, i've had some time to go through a lot of my photos that I have taken in Switzerland, France and Italy last March. I took over 4,000 pictures so needless to say I have forgotten about some of the photos.
I've been shooting mainly RAW now since last June, but last March I was shooting JPEG/RAW together. I was a bit intimitdated about RAW and it just took up so much space on the memory cards. I would go out and easy shoot 200+ pictures in an afternoon. I had just recently purchased my Canon 20D, and really couldn't afford several other cards.
But I have found that working with JPG's can be pretty easy too. Some of the coloring is already set for you and you don't have to do as much work when editing. I have realized though that I can't edit in JPG and save as JPG for my final photo. It is just way too much loss in data and quality. So I'll usually work and save in PSD, and if I am uploading to FLICKR or sending to a client for review, I'll save it as a 8bit JPG.
Anyway, this is photo is shot in JPG and edited. I tweaked the color a little and fixed the exposure. All in all it came out pretty good.
I'm a little disappointed with this year's Macworld. Now granted the new I-Phone is amazing. i mean it really really is probably the best phone, ipod, dohicky i have ever seen. But I don't have Cingular phone service. And I have a 1 year 1/2 service contact left on my current plan. So steve spent almost the whole presentation on the i-phone. Which is cool but i can't use it right now! But I can use the new Apple TV. A little device that streams and stores media from your computer. Movies,photos,video,tv,etc. That is only $300.
But we didn't hear about I-Works '07 or I-Life '07! That was completly surprising. nor any mac updates.
so yeah it was cool, but i wanted more.
I've been driving by this dump for about 6 months now... always telling myself that I should take some pictures of this place before they bulldoze it. Well they haven't and I finally got around to it. The neighborhood really doesn't like people taking pictures of the place.... so a quick and go job.
His steveness will be showing of all the new stuff.
My Predictions:
New Cinema Display
New I-Pod
8-core Mac Pro
I-TV with hard drive
I-Life'07
I-Work '07
I-Phone
and maybe just maybe something else.
