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When this happens, normally I grab a coffee to help get the ideas flowing, but for the last few days in Montreal, no one’s been allowed to drink the water due to a bacteria leakage, which also means, no coffee.

Tiny women carry amazingly large bags, twice their eighty-pound weight. Some of the women carry babies in slings around front. A good adult picker can harvest over two hundred pounds of…

The key is to buy specific cuts for specific dishes and be firm with your butcher. Opt for tender cuts from the inner haunch muscle if you fancy steak and use neck fillet or shanks if slow cooking. And deer mince makes for a very good gamekeeper’s sandwiches.

Wild salmon is a real treat and rivers in the British Isles are seeing more and more of them. If you can’t find wild salmon there are some…

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Artists are crafters of human thought and emotion. Think about that .. its massive. It is for us to inspire and motivate. To merely duplicate is to devastate. True innovation is born on…

The key is to buy specific cuts for specific dishes and be firm with your butcher. Opt for tender cuts from the inner haunch muscle if you fancy steak and use neck fillet or shanks if slow cooking. And deer mince makes for a very good gamekeeper’s sandwiches.

Wild salmon is a real treat and rivers in the British Isles are seeing more and more of them. If you can’t find wild salmon there are some…

Nothing Left…

Everything I have,

I put into this,

I have nothing left..

Nothing.

CWDaly

Last Super Moon of the Year (part ii)

The Last Super Moon of the year wasn’t done. Last night before heading home from a long that of work, I was rewarded with these beauties. I truly love a great moon shot, even just being present for this makes my whole month or maybe year (we shall see what the rest of the year brings us).

This blog and most things I do online involve the art/photography world. But in my day job (and night time when I am on call 😉) I am a healthcare professional and someone who truly cares about the well being of humanity. I also do a podcast on the idea of Harming Lessthat should be continuing soon (stay tuned). So why am I writing this blog post? Why am I risking the potential backlash from…

What is Capture One Express? Capture One Express is a free version done in co-operation with Fuji and Sony to give a free and powerful RAW editor tool to get the best colors out of the files.

Why Capture One? I was an Adobe Lightroom user starting way back in the beta days (felt like alpha days). I used Canon mostly at the beginning, but when I switched to mirrorless, Sony was my gear choice. The files I was pretty happy with, well that was until I tried Capture One Pro. The colors and files looked better with less effort than what Lightroom achieved for me. At some point I also acquired a Fuji camera, and wow the difference in quality was even greater in Lightroom vs Capture One Pro. Capture One Pro gave way superior quality files for the Fuji system. This is what convinced me to to make Capture One Pro my go to tool for editing.

There are 30 day trials of the Capture One Pro, but I’d say for you Fuji and Sony shooters who use Lightroom, give Capture One Express a go. It’s not as full featured, but the same RAW engine is behind both the Pro and the Express version.

I am not a reviewer of products, there are countless reviews already out there. The two images below were just quick edits done with some time in between so they’re not similar in output. I’d say that both are acceptable and to my liking. These were edited in Lightroom 6 (this version because I no longer pay for CC) and Capture One Pro 12 (this version because the RAW engine is the same in Capture One Express).

Lightroom 6

Capture One Pro 12

I think there are many great options for RAW editors. Capture One Express being free for Fuji and Sony should really put this high up on the list for shooters of these brands. The Capture One RAW engine is truly phenomenal and well worth exploring deeper.

CWDaly

February is Special #fullmoon

The full moon on 02092020 was a powerful one that felt really right for me personally and I hope it was also a powerful one for you. As I stated in my Underwater1post, I use photography as my outlet, and more than anything lunar photography is the most restorative form of photography for me. There are nights when I go out to shoot the moon and don’t even trigger the shutter. That is quite…

Underwater is how I feel right now as I’m writing this (and for that matter a great deal of the time lately). I feel like a person out of time and place. I don’t think I’ve ever fully felt like I truly belonged. But sadly most won’t notice or perhaps care. Social platforms are anything but social or platforms. A fish out of water feels like they’re gasping for water, well this human feels like a…

I find ferns extremely intriguing. They’re so resilient and able to thrive in many diverse environments. The fern probably existed in the times of the dinosaurs. This makes them as cool as we consider the dinosaurs (okay maybe that’s a stretch). Take the time to smell the ferns next time you see them.

CWDaly

Sometimes you get something attached to you that you didn’t do. “Be kind to each other, be kind to yourself” is part of my ending statement in “Outlet“. It was expressed to me that it is very similar to another podcast’s ending statement. I sometimes listen to and share this show to my followers on Twitter. I got called out for it being similar to their ending statement (for the record it was not…