A Routine Life

I woke up one morning and decided to build a life instead of making a living.

Occupy Wall Street Photography & Lightroom

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I finally went to Zuccotti Park in New York City this past weekend to check out the whole Occupy Wall Street movement. I did this as part of a photo meetup with my old classmate @Johnsra, who it turns out is into street photography too.  We spent a good three hours photographing this crazy movement and walking around downtown talking to protesters and learning about why they're at OWS.  One guy, a poet from Cincinnati, even read me a poem. Other's rambled on about tuition loans, pet's rights, and unfair usury (charging of interest).

I ended up shooting over 160 images (amazing what you can do with digital) and have gone through the best ones in Abode Lightroom. I've narrowed the best ones down to about 35. Can I say how much I love Lightroom?  Well I love it like I've never loved a program before; Lightroom has cut off at least 50% off my processing time! It used to take me two to three evenings, before bed, to process 35images, now it takes me about 2 hours. 

Now I have NO excuse to NOT shoot more.