That's right, I got Aperture last week! Well, at least I got the free 30-day trial. I resisted buying it until this week! (For those who don't know, Aperture is a program for sorting, processing, and archiving large quantities of photos. It's only available for Mac.)

Now it's not entirely my fault that I bought Aperture. Yamil made me do it. It costs $200, which is pretty steep, but it's very good at what it does. In the last few days I've sorted and processed more images than I was able to do in the whole month before, and I'm still learning to use it.

On Sunday, I was showing Yamil what I was able to do with Aperture. He looked it up online and found he could get it for $70 with the educational discount (which RL qualifies for). On Tuesday, I got an e-mail informing me that he'd ordered two copies - one for himself, and one for me. So much for saving money... (Actually, I just blame him because it makes me feel better about the money I'd have spent anyway).

This will help a lot! Hopefully you'll be seeing more pictures because I'll actually be able to process. Until then, here's a few that I did this past weekend:

mt. baker at dusk

church of the assumption
(i kid you not, i even took a picture of the sign.)

heard of lion's gate films? well, this is where the company got it's name - lion's gate bridge in vancouver, bc.