glibberish.

Foo Fighters reference, which has nothing to do with the Foo Fighters.

Haven’t done anything photography in a while, but here’s some taken around my friend’s flat (and where I am temporarily bunked in) one relatively idle night. Post-processing just done earlier today. Everything used with digiKam on my Linux. I’m surprised I got the black and white photos look almost like film texture-wise, a process I couldn’t do before with conventional Levels, Curves and Saturation adjustments in Photoshop or GIMP. I am getting more and more impressed with the power digiKam’s editing tools have! I don’t think I would be needing GIMP for photos anymore.

A few favorites from my picture-taking trip to school a couple of Sundays ago.

Just upgraded to Flickr Pro earlier. Unlimited pictures of unlimited sizes, for eternal archiving! That should lessen the burden for my storage needs. Although, downsized versions of full-res images in Flickr aren’t as sharp as my resizing method, which is 1) using the Lanczos filter to downsize, then 2) unsharp mask by 0.2-0.3px at around 50%. What to do, what to do..

(FOOTNOTE: I learned that great bit of resizing advice from this article.)

The vacation was more than three weeks ago, but it is only now that I have been able to upload the highlights on Flickr. To summarize the experience: one of my best summer outings ever!

Complete gallery: here, here, here, here, and here.

Finally, pictures from two weeks ago’s walking trip. Just select favorites here – the rest can be found at my Multiply site.