You can have your photos on the NAS and have a catalog file on an external drive which you swap between computers. If you have the NAS assigned to the same drive letter on both computers then LR will work seamlessly without having to point the catalog at different directories every time you swap computers. Make sure you backup the catalog to your NAS and/or computer regularly though!

My current set up is to have the catalog and photos on an external HDD, which I can then plug into e.g. a work computer and I have everything with me. I backup the photos as catalog to my NAS semi-regularly. Works fine for me at the moment, although I’m about to run out of space on the external HDD!

Righto, that wasn’t very clear. Apologies!

Page three of the watch thread

I think you’re confusing me with someone else.

Your chip on the shoulder one has been used within the past two weeks on this very site.

Explain?

When that same ruling class object to being swindled by benefit cheats or whatever they don’t get that.

That old chestnut is hackneyed and lazy.

Oops, sorry, forgetting my place <tugs forelock>

That’s the spirit! <throws aracer/dirty oink a penny for his humility>

Some big shoulders holding big chips on this thread.

What geetee is referring to:

https://www.phaseone.com/en/Products/Camera-Systems/XF100MP.aspx

EDIT: The Phase One website lets you download a “full resolution TIFF sample” which is a 700MB zip file. I can’t be bothered downloading it, but I’m sure it’s amazing.

jad, your Flickr link appears to be at full res so we don’t get any choice about downloading the 78MB file ;) Want to link to the 640px wide version instead?

Hi Greg, looks nice and well done on setting something up. That’s my January task this year, and looking to use Squarespace too :)

Two things – did you use any of the discounts being touted by verious Youtube channels for Squarespace? (I think they’re all 10% off). And secondly, major lens envy of your Sony and Zeiss primes :D

88km, 1,500m

Taken at 1am on Boxing Day. Pretty bright full moon!

Christmas night at Shiel Bridge by Kit Carruthers[/url], on Flickr

Try being a speccy ginger and see how many days you get. I’d happily date someone mental, just to say I’d actually been on a date in the last 5 years…

So, after I handed in I managed to get ill (not drink related!) and missed my own handing in celebrations, then spent the next day in bed. Only now just feeling right again!

Anyway, some interesting thoughts here. In my experience, within the department I work in there are some 200 PhD’s, with around 40 new candidates each year. I can only think of 2 that have quit within the time I’ve been there, and no one has failed their Viva. One person got given the maximum period of corrections (2 years!), but that’s highly unusual. I’m sure more dropped out, but barely enough to register. Maybe it’s a highly successful (and unusual) department, I’ve no idea!

On word counts, I think mine is around 60,000 (90,000 including all tables, captions, references, etc.) but there are folk I’ve known who hand in 40,000 or less and still pass with flying colours; these are often students who are doing modelling work.

I would definitely not recommend doing a PhD simply to get a better wage. It’s a huge gamble. A PhD is many things – training, enlightenment, knowledge acquisition – but a route to money it isn’t. But that’s not why most people do them.

2016 PhD Carbon Capture and Storage (specifically “Metal mobility in sandstones and the environmental impact of offshore geological CO2 storage” or something like that!).

In my experience, those with early prolific publishing records are/were part of a large research team working on a particular project, and so end up as 2nd, 3rd, 12th authors on lots of related work. Not to dismiss angledust’s achievements ;) (I’ve yet to publish anything in 4.5 years…)

I only had one ride this year, so I guess it counts as the best by default :)

Bynack More ascent/descent
Descending North off the plateau by Kit Carruthers[/url], on Flickr

Wonderful photos jad!

And glad to see the thread continuing, even for the egos like geetee ;)

Here’s my paltry effort compared with jad’s lot. Not shot at f8 :D

Old College Christmas Tree by Kit Carruthers[/url], on Flickr

266 actually ;)

Submitted today, woop!

Thanks Rachel, I’ll check them out too. I only picked Bootstrap and WordPress as they’re the only two I’m familiar with (as in, I have a WordPress.com blog and I’ve built a simple website with Bootstrap).

Never heard of WIX, will have a look, thanks.

I’m not an older folk, but qualify for the flu jab. It usually leaves me with a stiff shoulder/upper arm for a day or two, but not much longer than that.

Guns are fun! And **** terrifying!

Well technically I have until April to submit, but the cash has run out now so time to get it handed in :)

Paul – I’d make a good full-wall image for your bosses office ;)

I bought myself a new bike when I finished mine.

You had money left? 8O

I don’t for a minute think a PhD will land me a job, but it’s certainly been a damn good experience. You can read into that what you will ;)

I’ve had a pretty enjoyable PhD on the whole. Got paid to travel to a few ‘kin awesome places. The most stressed I was during my PhD was when I was writing a report on a commercial contract. And when I had to sleep in the office to look after experiments.

What is the subject?

Carbon capture and storage (blog ramble[/url]). So somafunk isn’t far off the mark given that the Govt. recently canned the £1bn that was going to fund a commercial scale UK project.

One of the wierdest, tackiest things Edinburgh has possibly seen:

Street of Light by Kit Carruthers[/url], on Flickr

Jimmy… He’s engaged, with a kid now…****

Definitely don’t talk to him and go straight to the police. In fact, you should go to the papers first, then police. Maybe he’ll finally get the message, but for gawds sake DON’T TELL HIM YOURSELF!

I stayed in Yosemite last October, renting one of the log cabins at Curry Village. Was comfortable enough and you have everything you need at the village. It was busy at the weekend, even in October, but by Monday it was pretty quiet. I think we got a deal with free meal ticket every night to the big canteen there, but there are other options (including a decent takeaway pizza place next to the bar).

If you’re camping, you have to use a bear box for food. If you leave anything smelly in your car then it becomes a bear target, likewise in your tent, etc.

Autumn stream by Kit Carruthers[/url], on Flickr

So long as you like it, to hell with everyone else ;)

Been mucking around with alternative LR tone curves and the high pass filter in PS for sharpening. Quite enjoy finding new stuff to play with although, as always, it’s easy to overdo it ;)

Autumn leaves and sunshine by Kit Carruthers[/url], on Flickr

Descending North off the plateau by Kit Carruthers[/url], on Flickr

Aye, lovely Lucas.

One from tonight
Botanic Lights 2015 by Kit Carruthers[/url], on Flickr

Nowt wrong with that!

Kit the Ginger

Pitlochry leaves and water by Kit Carruthers[/url], on Flickr

Thanks! Just a shame I barely get out on the bike :(