Transition

So since the last blog post there's been no offers of mountainous adventure, snow capped peaks, and ridiculous climbing. There has however been a turn up with the UK's favourite conversational topic, the weather. With autumn fading away into the past it seems everyone in the country is getting shocked by the fact that we're actually getting a winter on time for once. That aside, it's been a colourful and varied month.

I've always promised myself that I'd make the most of the landscapers most colourful season but I never really have... Even after a good few outings this year round I still felt I hadn't made the most of it. B+, Mr Deere, you can improve next year.

Speaking of improvement, I've been earning some geek points lately by getting lots of crazy ideas of how I could integrate my phone into my remote/mobile workflow... Then going ahead and making those ideas happen. The first thing that hit me was that there had been a lot of talk about porting every photographer's essential tool Adobe Lightroom onto the iPad, a pointless exercise one could argue since most camera bags that have a slot big enough for an iPad have plenty of room for a laptop which can pack the punch you'd need for running Lightroom... And they'll have a card reader / usb port which the iPad lacks. With that I thought about using a remote computer (i.e. my main image crunching beasty back in the office) wirelessly over a mobile connection... Using RDP (remote desktop protocol) to connect to the host computer.

Ta da! Adobe Lightroom 3.2 running on my HD2. It's pretty snappy, although takes a little longer handling TIFF files. CLICKY for video.

I branched out a little in the nightlife work this month too, moving away from the drum n bass scene for a little bit to do some work for Mantra nightclub in Windsor. It's a great venue with some cool people running the show, here's the manager Mickey celebrating his birthday in style.

Well, with the smoking ban it'd be far to unruly and irresponsible to have a celebratory cigar and risk polluting the lungs of innocent people. So indoor fireworks will have to do instead, far less harmful to the public. Gotta love HSE!

Although it wouldn't be a proper month without at least one drum n bass event, and luckily I made it back to Cardiff for another zany instalment of Aperture, this time with Hospital superstar Danny Byrd... Who got cut short by ten minutes thanks to the power completely tripping out. First time I've seen that happen.

After that brief stop off in the motherland it was back to the South East for the opening of an exhibition that both myself and Gina had pieces in. It was a pretty varied and artistically orientated exhibition so we both chose more contrived artistic pieces. I got a little bit creepy with mine though.

Saying that, I actually had interest from buyers before it even reached the wall! So I'll be a doing a limited run of those framed metallic prints, hand signed and numbered. If you're interested, contact me using the email address at the top of the page!

And so with that I draw this blog entry to a close, a lot's changed since the start. No more punchy firey colours, no more warm evenings and dry trails. It's gonna be a cold night in Gotham City...

And hell for location scouts.