Happy New Year 2010!!!

Happy New Year 2010!!!, originally uploaded by Nir Sinay.

I would like to Wish everyone a Happy New Year 2010!

B&W or Color?

upper peirce reservoir in B&W, originally uploaded by Nir Sinay.

Another one where im not so sure which one looks better in Color or in Black and White.... I tend to the Black and White in this case.



I think I also a bit over processed the color pic in PP though ..... :)

Upper Peirce Reservoir HDR

Upper Peirce Reservoir HDR in Black and White, originally uploaded by Nir Sinay.

HDR processing in Black and White.
here is the same onein Color.



not sure which one is best though....

Merry X-Mas and Happy New Year!

Merry X-Mas and Happy New Year!, originally uploaded by Nir Sinay.

Merry X-Mas and Happy New Year!

Orchids

Orchids, originally uploaded by Nir Sinay.

Taken at Singapore Botanical Gardens on a very rainy day.

50,000 page views on flickr1

just passed 50,000 photo views on flickr ... great!

Natural Chocolate

Natural Chocolate, originally uploaded by Nir Sinay.

At the Botanical Garden Singapore. looks just like chocolate... natural chocolate....

Butterfly Heaven

Butterfly Heaven, originally uploaded by Nir Sinay.

Taken at Changi Airport Singapore in the Butterfly Garden , this guy was quite patient

An Adobe Lightroom OH NO moment - Corrupt Catalog file

Started up Adobe Lightroom today and got the worst error messages anyone can have in Lightroom

"lightroom encountered an error when reading a catalog and needs to quit "

"Lightroom will attempt to diagnose the problem next time it launches"

Lightroom then just went into a loop as it was started up displaying the message above....

 

OH NO!!!

Although I have weekly backups , some of the newer edits were not on the backup.

After an extensive web search I  finally found a solution. 

1. Make a copy of the problematic catalog file just in case

2. Rename the "bad" catalog file with a different name

3. Start-up lightroom and create a new Catalog

4. Use File -> import from catalog...

5. Choose the bad catalog file and  import it into Lightroom

Worked for me all pictures and XMP data have been imported into Lightroom and all is back to normal. Sigh

Hope it weill help anyone else with the same error.....

P.S. tested with Lightroom 2.5

canon eos experience at the singapore pit building

At the canon eos experience at the f1 pit building with dan chung . . .

spider

spider, originally uploaded by Nir Sinay.

A small spider we stumbled upon in our last photoshoot.

In Black and White

, originally uploaded by Nir Sinay.

playing around with Photoshop , i think it looks quite good

A white Flower

, originally uploaded by Nir Sinay.

a white flower we saw on a tree in our photoshoot in Singapore Botanic Garden Last week.

A Mother's Bond

A Mother's Bond, originally uploaded by Nir Sinay.

Silence

Silence
Originally uploaded by Nir Sinay