on the way to whistler

after some very intense weeks of photo editing, i'm finally on my way to Camp Of Champions in beautiful (and hopefully sunny) whistler. öfi and mugl have aleredy been hitting the road on thursday, but i decided to join a class reunion yesterday and follow a couple of days later.
it was definately worth the delay, haven't seen most of my classmates for decades literally!

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(11 men and an italian jerk today are going home to this country that i saw from above :D)

am leaving sunny germany (well, it was about time for some sun!), only to find out that i'll be airborne for the worldcup game between germany and england this afternoon (somewhere between iceland and greenland to be exact). so i'm hoping that lufthansa kept its promise to re-invent wireless internet on their long distance flights, so i can watch the game or at least follow it on some live ticker. otherwise, i hope that the pilot is a bit of a foolball fan and announces the goals at least... :)


keep you posted ;)


UPDATE:
i meanwhile made it to whistler... of course, there was NO internet on the plane, yet the crew were patriot enough to announce every single goal... could not believe it... sooo stoked!!!

(enough of the sarcasm... i leave it up to sign language)

the streak continued, when i picked up the rental car and got an upgrade to a freakin' suburban... sorry for the gas-bill, chris... but i love this car! equipped it with two german flags i bought, we will be a pain in the ass for the austrian part of the crew.
stopped at serfas' place in downtown vancouver for a quick visit and to make the pick for an insane AK story for the next december issue... brainfarm with trice, jjack and lando... iiiinsane.

(oh, beloved rental, oh beloved vancen!)

to make my day complete, öfi called and announced a reservation at sushi village. could not be any happier right now... met fabia and most of the crew there and had a nice dinner... what a day!!

(oh, beloved sushi village)

item of the month - june2010

well, this month's item isn't really an item, but a little piece of software - expression media pro - that i spend more time with than with my wife at the moment. the reason is, the big annual photo edit is due and there's submissions to edit from about 100 photographers worldwide.
the number of submitted previews has already passed 100k again, so for previewing and editing i need a piece of software that is simple, does not generate huge piles of data and in the same time is reliable enough to safely juggle me through the picture jungle. i found this software already years ago, when it was still named 'iView media', before it was bought by microsoft.

in contrast to way more popular software like lightroom or aperture, this program concentrates on what it can do best (and what i need in this case): make easy editable catalogues of piles of previews. rate them (with colours and/or stars) and narrow down the mass of submitted pictures to a reasonable amount.

the editing process this year already takes longer than expected, yet i could not imagine how long it would tage without this little program...

nice jackson hole review...

just found this nice review about our last year's jackson hole trip with bryan iguchi, sani alibabic and peter könig on peter's blog:

peter könig's blog

thanks peter, nice memories!... my own blog hasn't yet been online at that time so check peter's version for some of my shots.