Long overdue for an update!
Its not that I've got fed up 'blogging' just don't seem to have had the time!!
Been doing plenty of photography too but since Christmas I've taken the plunge into using the digital for 'RAW' imaging as opposed to letting the camera do all the processing. JJ gave me the Photoshop Elements 6 software for Christmas which is absolutely fantastic for manipulating images and doing all the fixes you need to get the best results and lends itself to using the un-compressed RAW format straight from the camera. Only problem is very big files and the time needed to do all the necessary fixes and post processing and then to convert the photos into JPEG format to upload to the internet. Hence no new photos since Christmas!! The format isn't terribly user friendly as it slows the camera down too so I'm going to go back to using JPEG for most things and just do certain images in RAW when I want the best possible results. At least thats the theory!! I am intending processing a batch for upload here soon though so watch this space as they say!
Not been terribly 'radio-active' (!!) of late either, HF conditions have been poor though the antique FT101ZD has been put to good use once or twice on 20 and 40 metres but VHF beyond the island has been a dead duck for a couple of months now though I did get an honourable mention in the RSGB magazine RadCom last month for my 2.5w SSB contact into Northamptonshire (465km) back in January (Big hello and thank you to Bryn G4DEZ!).
The kids came over for a week last week and had a super time with mostly good weather and are looking to coming back again in August. Dropped them back over the weekend and then hitched a lift with Ma&Pa to come back on the ferry and they are staying for a week too. The ferry trip was a bit of an adventure too!! The ferry got in about one and a half hours late, I kid you not!!! We left Mum and Dad's in Cornwall at about 9.45am and drove up to Poole where we joined the hideously long queue for the boat which took an extra half hour to board as it was so busy then they couldn't close one of the rear doors as a chain had jammed making us an hour late, that meant we then arrived late at Guernsey, another delay as the Condor Clipper was in ahead of us rather than after us and we actually arrived at Jersey just in front of it but then had to wait for an HD ferry coming out of the harbour, Mum and Dad went off to their car and I went to get off as a foot passenger as I had to go and get my car but the scissor lift had broken down so none of the foot passengers could get off until the cars had gone!!!!!!! Good old Condor eh?!?! What is it they say about travelling hopefully??!
Anyway the Jersey weather is at last showing signs of improvement and the influx of visitors has now started by the look of things. And who knows there may even be some more photos to look at soon!!
- Posted by Rob Luscombe on 24/04/2008.
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