Beautiful Loire Valley

3 years old photo, still strikingly beautiful. Thanks to LR, it's easy to re-look at my old photos.

Knot

Kid shot with K20D

A very naught boy! XD

Edited with Lightroom

My K20D dead

With years of abuse, my K20D finally dead a few months back.  Well, it's not dead. It's very strong indeed, except I have broken the top cover and resulted in malfunction of the mode dial and light-meter switch, which makes the multi-segment meter and P mode gone.  Not a very big deal for me.

However, another problem make me put away the K20D in the deepest corner of my camera box forever:  it's a strange horizontal line on EVERY picture I took with K20D, jpeg or RAW.  At first, there was a dead pixel on every pic.  Easy fix with Pentax because K20D comes 'pixel mapping' function, handily in the setup manual.  It turns out to be a disaster:

INSTEAD OF JUST ONE DEAD PIXEL, A HORIZONTAL LINE TOGETHER WITH MAPPING ARTIFICE APPEARS ON EVERY PIC.  (See below pix)

While dead pixel can be easily fixed in Lightroom, the mapping artifice is very troublesome because I have to fix it manually.  

My K20D served a good 70,000 shutter count. So I just let it R.I.P. in my camera dry box. Amen,

I get a used K5 instead.

Street of Taipei

Sun Moon Lake, Taiwan

Contrast and color tuned in Lightroom.

Street of Tai Chung

I like those fingers. LOL

Sad Chimp

Depressed

Untitled snap with Pentax DA21 / 3.2 AL

A street snap with my beloved DA21, my "standard" lens for street snap. I love it's small size, but the slow focusing speed of the Pentax system is a bit annoying when doing street snap - it's just not fast enough in some situation.

Sometimes I have to rely on the decade old zone focusing technique, not ideal for digital images because you can easily notice the out-focus with these old-day technique when blow-up on your screen.

Another pic from my recent France trip

Red, and white

A snap in Shanghai

Corner

I am not sure why I like these kind of framing when snapping sad subjects. I just like it.

A lonely lamp post

enhanced saturation and add vignetting.

Seine River, Paris

Chateau hotel in Loire Valley

Carnac, France

A summer holiday town in Brittany, Western France

Beach of Carnac, Brittany, France

"Blue sky effect" for Lightroom, downloaded from the net.

Pont de Chambord

And the beautiful Loire river running below it.