Aperture vs Lightroom

I'd been using Aperture for 2 years, and I like the image quality processed by it it and the simple but powerful user interface. However, I found it's very slow and I thought it was because of the below standard spec of my Macbook (2GB ram on board), until one of my friend on Facebook suggested Lightroom to me.

I have big hesitation switching to Lightroom, because I have over 70K images stored on an external HDD. I can import all the master images, but I cannot transfer the keywords and alternations I did with Aperture. Nevertheless, the Aperture just hung too much and I decided to import all image with Lightroom first, and see how it goes.

Surprisingly, the Lightroom import the images much faster than Aperture. Trying out LR for a few hours, I found it's much faster than Aperture in ALL operations. The only thing I missed in Aperture 3 is the preset color tuning such as toy camera... but I can save my own sets of processing as user presets, so not a big deal.

I would miss Aperture anymore.

A corner of Forbidden City, Beijing

Red vs green, old vs new... I like the contrast.

By the way, are historical buildings really have to be THAT old?

Post processing: vignetting

Another snap of symmetry

B/W treatment on Aperture, curve, vignetting.

One lonely lamp post

I have no idea why I like to photo lamp-post. Let you know when I figure this out.

Processing: Toy camera effect on Aperture

A downward arrow

Please stop pointing downward... I want UP!!

Processing: grey scale with yellow filter setting on Aperture

The blue sky

When the sun is shining, lamps are probably useless.

Processing: Toy camera effect in Aperture