I've got about 990 photographs to comb through, which I'll start doing later this afternoon. Meanwhile I'm unpacking so I can do laundry and pack again.
It's weird to think I'll only be in my house another seven days after spending the last nine away from it.
First of many:
Many more coming. So far I've shot 930 images...and haven't even seen all of them yet.
I'm in a remote area with slow Internet for the next couple of days. You will see photos, and descriptions, and probably Yelp reviews coming up...but for today and probably a lot of tomorrow, less so. (Click on the globe icon below for some insight.)
It turned out, visiting Venice for only one day worked exactly right. More on that, too, as time warrants.
The Southampton Arms remains my favorite pub in London, but The Blackbird comes in a close second:
I wound up having breakfast and dinner there yesterday, followed up with drinks at a suburban-feeling club down the block. (Maybe not suburban; more like bridge-and-tunnel.)
Now I'm at Gatwick waiting for my next flight to phase II of this trip: Venice. So far the flight is only delayed 40 minutes. And I may have figured out the Lightroom problem, or at least found a workaround. More on all of this later tonight or tomorrow.
Traveling today, so no postings until much later. Possibly tomorrow.
Photos too. I did a field-test of my Surface, and everything worked, once I re-installed Lightroom. I hope I don't have to do that again.
You know, it sucks to be Greece right now, and Germany is really screwing itself by not negotiating with them. But as an American tourist about to visit the continent, this is a nice thing to see (particularly after the bump earlier in the month):
This doesn't completely suck, either (I'm stopping in London on the way):
As I'm still getting to know Lightroom 6 and its HDR feature, I wanted to revisit this one from 2013:
Here's the refresh. I think it's a more subtle result, and looks more like what I actually saw in Hampstead Heath:
On my next trip (in two days), I'll probably take a lot more HDR-ready images. The Canon 7D Mark II does a sort-of draft HDR in-camera, with a number of options for generating the raw files that my old camera didn't have. I'm looking forward to the results.
With the Inner Drive Technology World Headquarters move only 21 days from now, this was bound to happen:
Also in the next three weeks is a big vacation. So, you know, no stress...
Via Citylab, the clearest explanation yet for why subways have delays, courtesy NYMTA: