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Potela Panorama

For those who are interested in experiencing exactly how stunning it was up at the Potela Palace in Lhasa, I've put together a panorama from a set of 7 photos I took while up there. It was an amazing view of an amazing place:

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The Potela Palace and Lhasa, Tibet

Next in my series of photos from India, Nepal and Tibet is a set of pictures taken on our second day in Lhasa, Tibet. In these, we have some great shots from the Drepung Monastery and the Potela Palace. There is another set coming of where we actually go into the Potela, but these are pretty fun pictures none-the-less.



Many of the photos in these set are taken using a lens that I rented before my trip from Lens Pro To Go. I had never before thought about renting a lens for my digital camera before, but after the amazing experience offered by LensProToGo, I'll definitely be doing it whenever I need something to extend my camera kit.

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Adobe Lightroom 1.0, mostly great

After outgrowing Apple's iPhoto for my digital darkroom and photo storage needs, I started a search for an alternative option. First, I tried using Aperture by Apple, but apparently the video card on my Powerbook wasn't enough to handle the program. Seemed silly to limit the software to users of super high-end systems, but whatever -- Aperture gets awful reviews anyway.

Finally, I tried out the beta of Lightroom and have been really impressed. It does a great job working with both RAW and JPEG formatted pictures, including an intelligent system for allowing me to revert back to the "negative" version of an image from before I changed it. The system uses "sidecars" for the changes rather than actually holding two complete versions of most pictures as does iPhoto. The organization system makes sense and allows for several different schemes for keeping track of photos. I can tag them, rate them, sort them and even adjust the EXIF data through a well thought out interface.

Overall, I rate Lightroom highly and serve notice to Apple that they need to seriously improve iPhoto if they hope to keep up with Adobe.

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