A couple of weeks ago we had a long weekend in London with friends. Went to Borough Market, The Design Museum, had afternoon tea at The Athenaeum and dinner at Arbutus Restaurant. Also caught up with some old friends from university which made for a fun evening.
archive for 2010
- Plug my Fuji F31fd in via USB
- Fight with Windows Explorer to actually get it to display some thumbnails from the camera. What was wrong with just showing cameras as mass storage devices?
- Drag and drop photos from trip into new folder on my HDD
- Browse through photos using the fullscreen view in IfranView
- Cull any rubbish, duplicates etc. Manually eyeball “highlights” that I want to upload to Flickr
- Open up Flickr Upload
- Drag my chosen “highlights” from Explorer window into Flickr Uploader
- Re-order, rotate and add to sets where appropriate
- Hit upload – wait a while…
- Browse photos on flickr adding metadata where appropriate and cropping/adjusting using Picnik
- Sit back and admire the Set view on Flickr
- Run SyncToy to mirror my photos to a second HDD
Pretty clunky I know.
What I really want is a way of tweaking my photos online and getting those changes mirrored back locally. Slightly hampered by the fact that my local photos are on my desktop PC, which gets turned on monthly at the moment. Ideally I would have all my photos on some kind of NAS which I could then edit and upload from via my imaginary Macbook Pro and access the NAS remotely from work, pub etc. Oh and NAS should backup into the cloud. For free.
How does this compare to your workflow dear readers?
January: My Dad turned 60 and retired, great weekend in a National Trust property.
February: Ria and I had a few days in Krakow including Valentines Day at Auschwitz.
March: Had a weekend near Helensburgh at Strone Cottage – outdoor hot tubs are one of mankind’s great inventions.
April: Saw Honda’s Asymo, destroyed my website, went to a huge 50s themed charity party.
May: Spent a long weekend in Arran, travelling there on the train and then the ferry. Did some nice but very, very wet walking. First round of redundancies at work.
June: Lovely wedding, lots of warm evenings drinking outdoors, saw numerous films at the film festival. “Our” birthday picnic.
July: Went to Whitby and visited my parents at home including a day trip to York. Began the great flat hunt.
August: fringe, fringe, fringe and found a nice flat! 2nd round of redundanices at work.
September: Moved in with Ria, had a weekend in London, rounded off the festival, re-designed my website.
October: Had two weeks in New York, Boston, Chicago and New York again. Amazing trip – wanted to return immediately. Numerous halloween parties.
November: Finally had our flat warming party, my cousin in Kansas got engaged.
December: The Jackson & Phillips families went for a weekend in St Andrews together.