Woodland Zoo

This weekend, we had Carolyn’s parents up for a visit. We took them and the boys to the Woodland Zoo in Seattle. It was an overcast day, so the weather was ideal for shooting some photos. Here’s the best of the lot:

A bald eagle over at the raptor exhibit:

A heron that landed near the penguins:

Some penguins walking the circuit:

A sleepy jaguar:

I processed these images using Adobe Lightroom. This is an excellent product with a visually stunning user interface. I also own a copy of Aperture but this is clearly a superior product. I’m not sure if it’s superior enough to warrant ponying up $199 for it, but I’ll reserve judgement for a few more weeks.

Comments

[Mark]

Cool. The zoo is one of the first things we hit when we got here last fall. We enjoyed it as well. The bald eagle was really breathtaking. I had never seen one up close like that. Here's my shots: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marklio/sets/72157594306712225/

I'll have to give Lightroom a shot. I've gotta get a better lens to complete with you, though :)

[Bertrand Le Roy]

Great shots. I have been using Lightroom through all the public betas and I received my final copy last week. It's a great product, and the release version is a lot faster than the betas. Love it.

[stefan wenig]

john,

whenever i read stuff like this
http://graemerocher.blogspot.com/2007/03/charles-nutter-ruby-on-grails-story.html
i can't help but think what you might be up to, but all i'm getting is pretty pictures...

this is getting increasingly hard to put up with. hey, the race has started some time ago! .net started as the multi-language platform, but while we still have a choice of, well, basically c# or vb.net, the 100% pure guys are not so pure anymore and start getting real stuff done using dynamic languages. so drop your defenses: what's going to be in it for us? it's about time something gets done, and if you've already started, come out and tell us! please!

stefan

ps: while being pushed about dynlangs, don't forget that AOP and metaprogramming in c# would be quite welcome as well! ;-)
pps: no, i'm not too excited about ironpython. as long as i can't even implement a CLS class (which i understand ironpyhton can't), it's a dead end and therefore limited to few scenarios.

[John Lam]

Patience Stefan!

All will be revealed soon enough. And I think you'll be happy :)

[stefan wenig]

john

thanks for your encouragement, but, you know, being patient is hard enough if you're just curious. but it really means asking a lot if someone is waiting for information to base their future architecture on. so while i'm optimistic that you'll come up with something that rocks, it's still a major pain to have no idea what this is going to be.

right now we have ironpython with the problems i mentioned, VB 9 with little more than dynamic interfaces (i'm sure you're aware anyone can build that at home in an afternoon using reflection.emit) and slow old reflection invocation, entlib with their transparent-proxy-based approach (i still can't believe it, but that's what they are doing!), castle's dynamic proxy and boo with no support from MS... what would your bet be if that was all you knew and you had to build something right now?

alright, just promise you won't make us wait 'till PDC, ok?

thanks!
stefan

[Monitor]

Penguins - ok, but no GNU? ;-)