Bounded By Wire

First of all, thank you for the congratulations yesterday. I was genuinely touched by some of the comments.

I don't know whether it was the heady excitement of yesterday or what but today has been Dementia Day.

I logged into DPReview this morning like I do every morning and noticed I had a message. It was from French photographer Harold Glit, check out his website, whom I have befriended through the Ricoh Forum and met on my trip to Miami Beach.

Harold's message was dated January 2. It has taken me 11 days to notice it. Of course, I replied instantly and apologized for the delay in replying.

Since 2011 began, I have been having trouble getting the copyright in File Info on Photoshop to default to 2011. It still defaults to 2010. I tried various things to get it to show 2011, including trashing my Photoshop Preferences.

Downloading my photographs from this afternoon's walk, I suddenly noticed the copyright box in Adobe Bridge. It was still showing 2010. Do you think that is why the File Info in Photoshop would not default to 2011? :-)

I made the necessary change.

With the images having been downloaded, I could not understand why yesterday's images were also appearing. Yes, I did delete the files from the memory card before setting out. I was a little puzzled and put it down to a software quirk. After all today is January 12. But was it? I clicked on the dashboard on the Mac and today's date flashed up as January 13. Ooops!

Finally, I discovered some photographs on the PC that I thought I had deleted from the Mac in error. I copied them on to my flash drive in order to put them back into Adobe Bridge on the Mac. When I came to copy them over into the correct folder, I suddenly found that they had been on the Mac all the time.

Like I said, today was dementia day. :-)

My short walk this afternoon, it was short because of the cold weather, took me toward the railtrack. I never arrived. My attention was caught by the wispy cirrus clouds in the sky. It was just a question of the best way to capture them. Barbed wire atop a chain-link fence made a good frame.

And no, this shot is not one of my high contrast B&W shots, it is a B&W conversion in Silver Efex Pro.