Paudies Photoblog

Wow, this is hard.

My PC has been acting up for the past few weeks, hence the delay in posting new stuff.

So I decided to completely wipe the hard disk and install Ubuntu, for those who aren’t aware, Ubuntu is an operating system just like Windows or OSX, except better. I had a good look around before doing this to make sure that there are sufficient programs to meet my requirements.

Namely something that can handle RAW photos to the same degree as Photoshop, a decent photo management program and usable video editing program.
There seems to be plenty of options, so I went ahead with the wipe and install on Sunday.

Things are … interesting lets say. The good news is that you can get an Ubuntu version of Google’s Picasa which is the photo management software I’ve been using for a good while now, basically it lets me flick through all my photos very easily and does some fairly minor editing. However at the moment I can’t get Picasa to run. I had downloaded the latest Beta release and followed their instructions on how to install it, but it didn’t work so I’m currently trying to install the last stable release, which is proving slightly difficult.

The easy of installing it is by doing something with repositories, which I half understand. But that doesn’t seem to work for my version of Ubuntu so I’m trying to do it via the Terminal which is also proving difficult. So I’m taking a break to write this.

All I ever used Photoshop for was to develop my RAW files. This is just pushing about a few sliders relating to brightness, contrast, white balance as well as cropping and straightening. The only reason I ever opened a jpeg in Photoshop was to clone out some dust spots from a dirty sensor. So I knew I wasn’t going to be missing much by jumping ship to Ubuntu.

At the moment I’m trying to figure out how to download the UFraw program that apparently does what I need done. I’ll report back on that later.

My plan for the video editing is to use Cinelerra.

I’ll keep you updated.

Love the choice of words

Goodday,

Sincerely,

Andrew Likierman.
Barclays Bank.

What is fairness?

Something we think we deserve because we’re good people?

Who cares? Who decides? There is no fairness.

You try to be a good person, because if you treat everyone fairly well then you’ll receive the same in return, right?

Bullshit.

I’m sick of it.

And whatever about people you can forget about fairness from anywhere else.

Last 15 surf trips been skunks?

So what, so is this one.

This time all out hard work will pay off. Oh wait, there’s nobody keeping score about how diligent you are, the last time you got something worthwhile.

Waves? Sure here’s a perfect looking swell.

Photos? Hah you’re joking right? Here’s a fog so thick you can’t even see the waves from beach.

Dream on sunny-jim.

Ok, ok. Here’s some sunshine at a shite beach break and reef  that isn’t breaking properly.

Good luck to you.

I’m sick of it.

There is no fairness.

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From A Day in 2007.

Man I kept some awful shots back then.

Good times in the white stuff

It sucks ass

I wish I could do this stuff.

Cool spiderman shit

Or lack of.

It’s grey today, which is disappointing considering the amount of sunny days we had recently when I didn’t take any photos.

Last night had the most beautiful natural light I have ever seen. I just smiled and kept driving.

I need to go on a trip.

End of next week is looking good.