As much I like to spend time outside watching and photographing wildlife or just chasing the light, sometimes it is necessary to do maintenance or take care of the hard and software that helps to create the images we like to show to our audience. Yep, I got my Christmas gift already. A new 27” iMac is since a few days the machine for all my post processing and picture administration. I don’t get paid for saying anything good or bad about any product that I use but I can tell you I have never looked back after I abandoned five years ago the whole PC and Microsoft c%&p. I will still use the MacBook Pro and my SAMSUNG display, that both have served me very well during the last five years, for my day job and as a backup machine while traveling. To make this already long story shorter, I spent the last few days migrating software and adapting the new computer to my needs. It is time consuming to make the changes but I already enjoy the much faster speed of the iMac and the incredible quality of its big display.
We had fresh snow on the ground every other day and lots of birds hang around in the woods here. The camera is always mounted on the tripod and whenever I see an interesting bird or some good light falling on one of the countless Gold Finches I stop what I’m doing and go and make a click…