I use LR4 to import my raw files. If I want a Black and White I make a virtual copy and then use the LR B&W tools which I think are awesome. Export as a JPG when finished. LR assigns a unique name to the virtual copy and you still have the original raw file to go back to.

Found my marbels in color


Found my marbels in Black and White

My wife has 8 brothers and sisters that live in Australia. We visit often from the US. I am very impressed with the health care system there. I have often wondered why it was not used as a model for universal health care here in the US instead of the Romney model. I suspect a lot of behind the scenes lobbying and misinformation.

I shoot in RAW, convert to DNG with lightroom and export JPG to the same folder. In Picasa all the DNG photos have the black bars. I sort the folders by name which puts all the JPG's first and makes it easy to export the JPG's to the web.

The United States was the first country to concertedly undertake compulsory sterilization programs for the purpose of eugenics. The heads of the program were avid believers in eugenics and frequently argued for their program. It was shut down due to ethical problems. The principal targets of the American program were the mentally retarded and the mentally ill, but also targeted under many state laws were the deaf, the blind, people with epilepsy, and the physically deformed. According to the activist Angela Davis, Native Americans, as well as African-American women were sterilized against their will in many states, often without their knowledge while they were in a hospital for other reasons (e.g. childbirth). Some sterilizations took place in prisons and other penal institutions, targeting criminality, but they were in the relative minority. In the end, over 65,000 individuals were sterilized in 33 states under state compulsory sterilization programs in the United States.

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You nailed it. Do not forget everyone is CA is a crazy gay commie Muslim, Atheist, illegal alien liberal.

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Thanks for the laugh of the day.

I just learned some great memory tricks, but I can not find where I put my notes.

Love the dog pictures.

Retired at 63 (now 67) I keep active with mountain biking and road biking (bicycle).
Bridge camera for these activities.
Also an avid reader (Kindle).
Four dogs.
What time I have left my wife always has a Honey Do list.
I volunteer one day a week at the VA hospital. The best place in the world to do volunteer work.

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I use it a lot with my Nikon D7000. I am pleased. It has become second nature to lock and unlock the lens as needed. I bought a rubber band creep aid and found it useless. Like I said the lock solves the creep problem if you make it a habit. By the way I like the lens.

I have used the Nikon 10-24 for over a year now and find I use it a lot. I sometimes challenge myself to only take the 10-24 and leave the telephoto at home. I find when I do that I get some very creative shots. I also have the Tamron 18-270 and love the range and versatility and am happy with it most of the time, but it is not as "sharp" as I would like at times. Will keep reading these post and may get another Nikon lens. Some many lenses, so little time.