I love you Starbucks. I love you Adobe.

I've been spending the last two weeks learning Adobe Lightroom. (Well, that and trying to get Ada to nap and from throwing her shoes out the car window.) My new office is Starbucks, since it's $2.50 for a proper oatmeal breakfast, and the wifi is free.

Not that I'm surfing. I'm studying. Almost entirely.

So my Lightroom book is 440 pages, and it's been a slog, but I'm almost done. I've been working on my Iowa photos, over and over and over as I learn. How to import, organize, retouch, and crop, and convert to black and white, and brighten, and sharpen, and color correct, and toggle back and forth to Photoshop, and make into slideshows and paper prints and post online. (Well, I'm working on that now, stay tuned for more to come.) I'm not awesome at it yet, but I know enough to be dangerous, and I've been having some very big grins over my oatmeal, as I figure out how to do some cool stuff.

Here's an example of paper print layouts that I played with yesterday, I have to say I'm pretty proud of them. Click to enlarge. I'll make a separate post about some of these photos, after two weeks of playing with them, they are near and dear friends.