That golden hour

When you get knocked down, you've just got to get back on that horse again and ride, ride, ride. Well, actually I had this planned for a while. The alarm went off at 4:30 and Darth Hobbit and I hit Worthing beach. The pier wasn't very photogenic from a distance but the boats were.


Sadly, as something has gone wrong with my RAW conversion system (I think installing Ubuntu over Kubuntu at a time where there is a major release a week down the line, wasn't the smartest thing to do) I'm stuck with digikam's batch processor so I've lost the golden feel that the RAW images have.


By the way, digiKam is coming to Windows, so if you like Adobe RAW but don't want to fork out the cash and were using the free version of idImager before they started charging for it, well now there is a free open source alternative. Digikam.


Digikam comes via another open source project, the KDE Windows project which aims to allow Windows users to run any KDE applications natively. It isn't quite there yet, but it is certainly coming along. Keep a close eye on it.


If you want a look at digikam, I've done a ten minute look at a slightly older version here. The latest Linux version is actually running quite sweetly.