So I finally actually sat down and learned some more about the fun called Lightroom, the glorious little tool that is photoshop for photographers. Sound a bit backward eh? Well photoshop is more or less for digital artists now days, and not so much photographers. Dont get me wrong, you can do everything in photoshop and more that you can in lightroom, but the amount of time it takes is horrendous. Most the tools in photoshop now days will never be used for photographers. So I took the time to learn all the new names and the dovetailing, slipstreaming, corner cutting, photo honing bliss of Lightroom and now am feeling much better about my photos.

While I was at it I learned why all my photos have been turning out much more washed out and under saturated when I upload them to the net. I learned all about the color profiling and learned taht the web uses sRGB while the default for everything else is AdobeRGB. So when firefox does the rough conversion instead of me having Lightroom do its nice clean one, it dont work so well. But enough banter. Maybe that explanation will help some poor photographer googling for help.

These latests photos are from my recent trip to Vegas for the Las Vegas bowl back in December with my friend Scott who was back on holiday leave from the Army.

I am just glad I am not a cow.

Long drive down, the Robinson family can be interesting when you mix step families. But you just come mentally prepped and you’ll carry on just fine. Eventually made it to Vegas. Not much warmer than Utah, but sunny at least.

As usual there is copious amounts of construction going on in Vegas. Particularly in the middle of the strip, was quite a surreal scene at night, unfortunately I couldn’t make it back over there in time with my camera. Reminded me of the pics of China and UAE with the 24 hour construction with dozens of high rise cranes.

Dont worry, i’ll stay away. I dont want to be JDOCHOP’d by purple sion.

Well look! even more.

Here at the game, it was bloody cold! And for one who doesnt like watching football anyways, it wasnt too fun. Had fun shooting though. This ended better than it looked it would.

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Me and Scotty, shot taken by Andrea.

Well look! its a friend. Katie Mower to be exact.

We got up at 6:00 am for the drive home. I cant sleep in cars, especially when I am not in one of my cars. So I shot instead. Glad I did.

Also glad I didnt eat here.

Isnt Southern Utah County lovely?

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Johnson thinks so.

Andrea et moi.

Thats it from Vegas. Heading to supposedly warm California on Wednesday. 70+ F sounds great to me, especially since the ski’s are in the shop. Due to this:

It was worth it though. More on that later. Got to finish editing the shots from that little adventure.

Hope everyone is well!