This is the second part about our holiday at Istria, Croatia.
While we were at Rabac, we made few excursion to the vicinity. We visited Pazin. An old town with lots of sightseeings. The town was nice, but you could sense the duality between the old town, old culture and a somewhat newer industrial city. You can still catch the smell of old Jugoslavia, the communist (or if you prefer socialist) one. As if the time stoped. This was not nearly what we saw at the seaside. Even people were different. Read more…
This year we were spending our holiday in Croatia. It was a great and short holiday, as usually.
Croatia’s Adria is one of my favorite places for summer relax. The sea is clear, the beach is rocky, just as I like it. People are kind (yeap, they live from the tourist) and very professional. In any restaurant you could speak Croatian, English, German and on some parts near Italy even Italian. The food is high-class and you could just occasionally make a mistake by entering in any of their restaurants, – as almost all the restaurants are at same (high) level. – This is true for the seaside, for sure, for other parts I’m not sure.
I really like their old towns beside the sea. This year we were wondering around Istria.
We were at visiting Labin, Rabac, Pazin, Rovinj, just to mention few.
Today, I’m uploading pictures only from Labin, just few.
More to come soon.
I’ve been playing with LensBaby 2.0 a bit.
I don’t know how, but all of my LensBaby pictures are soooo spooky. I like it. But, khm… Is that something wrong with my brain?! 
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If you’re serious about photography and you own a dSLR, you probably shoot all your photos in RAW quality. As RAW contains much more information than a simple jpeg or tiff, you need to process it. And that processing is essential step, so you need a good software for it.
Under Linux you’re somewhat limited, but only in quantity… You might be missing Adobe LightRoom, or CaptureOne, or whatever. – Do not forget you still can run a Windows inside of your Linux with VirtualBox or vmware, if you’re addicted to some of those software.
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After a lots of post processing, I’m glad to present to you The Ladies and The Hair Dresses
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New macros, for insect lovers…
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Oh, oh, I’m getting soooo excited! Bibble 5 from BibbleLabs is comming soon… – well… not that soon… 
There is a sneak peak page at BibbleLabs with screen shots!
It looks like the user interface will get much better, – it looks really similar to LightZone – and if you take closer view… we might even get versions?!
The other thing you can notice on the second screenshot is layers, select tool…
One plus screen shot in the forum…
I just can’t wait to put my hands on it.
Go Bibble, goooo!
I was really impatient to get hands on new BibblePro 4.9.9b release. The reason is it does support my new Nikon D300.
BibbleLabs did a fine tune. My RAW images loads fine, and everything works as expected.
Well, I’m still missing few things… Looks like some of them will be never ever a part of Bibble, but I’m optimistic… The list of things I’d like to have in Bibble (just major stuff):
- TIFF support! – Yeap, there are now TIFF “RAW images” right out of the camera… No more excuses…
- Stacked (or layered) effects. – This goes hand-in-hand with history and undo.
- Tethered shooting under Linux too.
- Selection tool. – Rectangular, ecliptic at least, with new/add/subtract/intersect. Increase, decrease, … would be nice tool. – And applying effects on selection only…
- Fill and draw tool…
- …
Oups, looks like I’d like a Photoshop competitor… well, if I see the first two/three in the near future, that would be like being in heaven…
Just a minor note on PS: Photoshop… expensive, ouch. And it does not run on my favorite OS. Gimp stuck with 8bit, Pixel buggy as hell, Cinepaint – is it alive? So it looks like, for photo editing on Linux the only solutions is Krita. Krita is not bad, but it is a bit slow, and crashes some times… but another time on that topic.
Bibble rocks. Thanks!
I’ve just bought a Nikkor f/2.8 105mm Micro VR lens… and it is just greate…
Some of my shots taken with that lens could be found here under “frirst macros”.
I just loooooooooove this lense.
