Another barn swallow picture from two months ago, the male brought in some building material (this time, sans mud).

Adobe just released an updated version of their raw file converter, with some new options for color profiles. I’m playing around with a few new and older images like this one to test out the changes. So far I like what I see.

The bigger news for me was the release of the second major version of Lightroom, which seems to address some of the problems that kept me from purchasing the first version. To test out the eval version, I’d like to sort and edit some images from Yellowstone in 2004 and 2005, which are ripe for a re-editing anyway.

It’s exciting to see how far the software tools have come since my first days of digital photography in December of 2000. It’s also exciting to see how far computers have evolved, the difference between my little MacBook and the desktop I was using back then is astonishing.