Just finished my annual eight-day retreat at the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, CT serving as chaplain for Mass. It is a cloistered monastery where approximately 40 Benedictine nuns live the Benedictine motto: "Ora et labora", work and prayer.

The monastery was founded in the late 1940's and grew over the years. It sits on 400 acres of forested land. The nuns make cheese, farm, have a herd of milk cattle and a small herd of sheep for wool.

The nuns, who range in age from the mid-20's to over 80, gather seven times daily for prayer either in the monastery church or in the chapel that is within the main monastery. While there I celebrated Mass using the novus ordo chanted in Latin in traditional Gregorian chant.

The land is beautiful. Quite a bit of it is outside the enclosure and thus accessible to those not in the community. This is the first of what will probably be several sets of photos.

There is only thing left to try which I found on the Adobe website:


Windows Vista and Windows 7

1.Exit Photoshop Lightroom.
2.Choose Start > Control Panel > Color Management.
3.In the Profiles Associated With This Device field, select the default monitor profile.
4.Click Remove.



Note: If multiple monitor profiles are listed, it is sometimes necessary to repeat the procedure for each one. Launch Photoshop Lightroom and test to see if the problem is resolved. If it isn't, return to the Display Settings and remove the next profile in the list.

Additional Information
Windows Vista and Windows 7 include the Microsoft Windows Color System (WCS), an OS-level color management platform that uses a unique color profile format. Using Photoshop Lightroom 1.2 or later is required for Lightroom to use WCS profiles.

The monitor profile (also called a color profile or ICC profile) tells your computer's video display card how to accurately display color on your specific monitor. If the profile is damaged, the image data that Photoshop Lightroom sends to the video display card can be corrupted before reaching the monitor. As a result, the photos don't appear. A monitor profile is not required for your monitor to function, but using one is highly recommended.

If the profile you were using was damaged, and it was supplied by the monitor manufacturer, try replacing the file with a new copy. The color profile could have been provided on a CD that came with the monitor. It's also possible that you can download it from the manufacturer's website. Open the C:\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\color directory, delete the old profile, and copy the new profile into the same directory. Then open the display color management settings through the Control Panel (as in Solution 3 above) and add the profile to the monitor.

If you created a custom profile using a monitor calibration tool or software and it's damaged, create a profile using that tool. (It is highly recommended that you create a custom profile for your computer and monitor rather than using the profile supplied by the manufacturer. More information about the benefits of profiling your monitor can be found in the Working With Color Profiles and Color Management topics of Creative Suite Community Help.)