Photos from our visit to Monaco and one photo from the skiing we did.

Phantom of Monte Carlo – 1/160 sec @ F/5.6

Sunny Side Down - 1/800 sec @ F/7.1

Monte Carlo Bay - 1/2 sec @ F/5.0

This week was a little busy, so out of the photos that I did get processed, here are two. Enjoy:

Lake of Clouds – Taken on our ski trip to Austria. This was over 1 800 meters (~5 900 feet) above the sea.

Straight Down – The edge of the ski resort, literally.

Finally had time to process and select these photos from the thousands I took over the last couple of months. These are the ones I got processed this past week. Enjoy!

So, I don’t usually talk about work on the public stage (Blog, Twitter, etc). A few things have changed recently (which I won’t be talking about right away), and so I’ve decided to make my professional life a tad bit more open but in the spirit of informing and to entertain.

The idea is going to be, talk about what I do, and explain my experiences, what I’ve learned and what I’d do differently. Since I have such a wide range of things I do, hopefully some of this will be interesting to you.

Lightroom 2

I recently acquired Lightroom 2 for my photo workflow. I’ve been using Lightroom 1 for a few years and it’s been a blast using it on my PowerMac G5. However, it was a bit slow and it was slowing up my workflow. Lightroom 2 has tremendously sped up the processing of my photos (perceptually twice as fast). Before I was waiting on the computer, now I can mostly just work and not have to sit there while the computer processes the changes I just asked for. Continue reading

I started this song over a year ago (March 2007?). I worked on it a bit since then but completely lost the direction I was going with it and gave up trying to make anything from it. Thus, I think it’s probably one of my worst songs. However, in the interest of finishing what I started and the fact I hate to leave things without closure, I decided just to cut it short and finish it up.

This one doesn’t contain any stock loops and is created entirely note by note in Apple’s Garage Band.

I present:

Michael Ziray – Undeserved

I hope you enjoy!