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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Sam Beckett Some of my flickr friends (& maybe some Zoomr ones too!) may recognise this photo that I took at Geysir, Iceland, originally uploaded in unaltered jpeg format in November 2007. As the weather has been awful here lately, as usual when bored & with no new images to upload, I sometimes raid the vaults. I recently resurrected the RAW file for this image, (literally!), it had been wiped when my HD crashed a few months ago, but via pure serendipity, I had emailed the RAW file a week or two before the crash to a flickr friend on request, (Paula Banks, take a bow!). Lo & behold, last week, when I with fingers crossed asked if she might still have it, she arranged for it to be resent back to me, (thanks Darragh!) . So anyway, I have the one RAW file back from all the RAW files I lost from my Iceland trip - but it's the one I missed having the most. Sweet! So anyway, I'm rambling, & I haven't even hit the gin yet to-night. So this is the Frankestein's monster of a rendering I have come up with via Lightroom/PhotoImpression 5.5, & Picasa...don't ask! When I get around to reinstalling PhotoShop PS2, & then learn all about how to use it (give it 5 years or so), you may well see a much nicer version of this sometime in 2012 or 2013...but the main thing now is - I have the RAW file again, safely backed up now, & gmailed to myself too for good measure. :) Now as the first anniversary of my trip to Iceland rapidly approaches, & I gaze idly (& dreamily) at this mongrelified image, I'm all homesick to return... (Thinks), must ask Paula if herself or Darragh ever got around to processing it properly in PhotoShop themselves actually...could save me five years or so... :))) (flickr Explore #154 on Thursday, October 23, 2008)

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The quality isn't so good because this is an old scan and I never have been very good at scanning prints. Oh well, I like the shot anyway.

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