I shall be on holiday for the next two or three weeks. I will be visiting the sunny island of Hokkaido, where I shall be mostly relaxing, maybe shooting the occasional photo. Anyone in the area fancy doing drinks or an impromptu session…?

Now how to make room in my luggage for some clothes, I never had this problem when I used the point and shoot….

Yesterday Ollie, Ken and I went out to Enoshima to go to a beach party and club night. I had an awesome time and as per usual took some pictures.

Click the banner or here to see the gallery.

I’ll put up a full gallery eventually, however due to my computing woes, I have not got my HTML editor of choice available which makes writing the gallery page a bit tricky…

If anyone wants copies of the pictures, let me know and I’ll send them along…

It would appear my macbook has bitten the dust AGAIN, as a result it is going for a nice vacation with the apple technicians AGAIN, so far it has had a new logic board a new super drive and a new power supply in a matter of months. I should be back online later today as I am currently building my Windows box again, however things may not go entirely to plan…..

Sorry to those of you looking for the “push” pictures from yesterday, I’ll get them up as soon as possible….

*Update* A new logic board (again), Hard drive, CD ROM drive, bottom case, inner case and screen bezel later, my machine is back and working, at least at the moment….

Today I finally replaced my old watch which I managed to misplace when I last went swimming. I chose a time-piece by the Japanese watchmaker Orient Star. After much dilberation I settled upon a nice stainless design with a black face.

It features an automatc mechanism, with a 40 hour power reserve and seems to be quite happy with the amount of hand motion that I make as the needle was showing full winding by the time I got home from the store, so I shouldn’t ever have to wind it.

In other news I also replaced the battery in my alarm clock as it had stopped running, thankfully I always set a second alarm and so wasn’t late getting up this morning…

The gallery is using another of the airtight interactive plugins for lightroom.

Airtight interactive have released new versions of their picture viewers, which now integrate fully with Adobe lightroom(which is my picture management solution of choice). I shall be seeing if there is a useful place for me to use them as thy are pretty neat flash solutions, for certain types of gallery presentations…

Click here for an example of one of the styles using more pictures from Korea.

Comments and suggestions are very much welcomed as I am still not certain how useful they will be…