I'm beginning to think I should start to rename my "Image of the Week" to "Image of the Month" given the recent frequency of my postings. It's amazing where the time goes and almost as soon as this month had started I find myself about to enter it's last week.
I have good reason to have missed most of the month and from the experience gained over the last 3 weeks I would like to propose two new rules for photographers.
1. Never ever change your Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, no matter how wonderful those shiny new features might seem.
2. Under no circumstances ever ignore rule one.
As the saying goes the grass is never greener the other side, or rather there's a huge great big minefield between your pasture and the greener one next door. I'm not quite there yet, but the sounds of battle are receding, for the moment at least.
I'm not going to name systems because that would be unfair. Both are fine products, but system B had a few features I desired that system A didn't and from my initial tests B performed faster too. So I chose to move from system A to system B only to discover the migration process is unbearably slow and tedious (almost 2 weeks to import all my images and catalogue data with constant nursing along the way). A system crash part way through didn't help.
Learning a new interface is painful and discovering I preferred how system A did a number of my common tasks didn't make me feel any better about the last 3 weeks. Yes I did test it first, but I didn't realise how much I preferred the old way until now. I'm sure come Christmas I'll look back and laugh. Ho, ho, ho!
Consequently a number of planned trips haven't happened although I have managed a few excursions to more local areas such as Wells, Bristol and Exmoor. I had an opportunity to test my raincoat's waterproof qualities in Exmoor during a heavy downpour that started from the very moment I'd finished setting up my view camera and lasted until it went dark 2 hours later. I didn't get my picture but I was outside and that's all that mattered!
Still, I am at last able to resume work on my scans and make progress on my backlog and I'm off to the Lake District at the weekend for a welcome change of scene (more wet weather according to the Met Office - must test my umbrella rig for the tripod today).
My copy of Windows 7 arrived on my desk yesterday. I could install it today before I leave for the lakes. Will I heck. I've had enough of computers so I'm locking it in my drawer and there it may forever stay. So what if I can't print to my colour printer from Windows XP.....
1. Never ever change your Digital Asset Management (DAM) system, no matter how wonderful those shiny new features might seem.
2. Under no circumstances ever ignore rule one.
As the saying goes the grass is never greener the other side, or rather there's a huge great big minefield between your pasture and the greener one next door. I'm not quite there yet, but the sounds of battle are receding, for the moment at least.
I'm not going to name systems because that would be unfair. Both are fine products, but system B had a few features I desired that system A didn't and from my initial tests B performed faster too. So I chose to move from system A to system B only to discover the migration process is unbearably slow and tedious (almost 2 weeks to import all my images and catalogue data with constant nursing along the way). A system crash part way through didn't help.
Learning a new interface is painful and discovering I preferred how system A did a number of my common tasks didn't make me feel any better about the last 3 weeks. Yes I did test it first, but I didn't realise how much I preferred the old way until now. I'm sure come Christmas I'll look back and laugh. Ho, ho, ho!
Consequently a number of planned trips haven't happened although I have managed a few excursions to more local areas such as Wells, Bristol and Exmoor. I had an opportunity to test my raincoat's waterproof qualities in Exmoor during a heavy downpour that started from the very moment I'd finished setting up my view camera and lasted until it went dark 2 hours later. I didn't get my picture but I was outside and that's all that mattered!
Still, I am at last able to resume work on my scans and make progress on my backlog and I'm off to the Lake District at the weekend for a welcome change of scene (more wet weather according to the Met Office - must test my umbrella rig for the tripod today).
My copy of Windows 7 arrived on my desk yesterday. I could install it today before I leave for the lakes. Will I heck. I've had enough of computers so I'm locking it in my drawer and there it may forever stay. So what if I can't print to my colour printer from Windows XP.....
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