I started a greenhouse project in September as I told in my latest updates, There was a lot of old windows stored at my moms' house and I brought them here instead of scrapping them. I built a frame on a solid foundation made of 10 cm of concrete with frost insulation below and it is now standing there covered with plastic tarps, waiting for the spring to come when I will install the renovated and painted windows. Pictures of the progress below:
Then Ingela decided to throw out the old table from the living room and ordered a new one from me according to her own specifications:
For the moment I'm upgrading Ingelas computer because all this heavy blogging and picture editing is taking its toll on the old one. The new one will include an energy saving Xeon L3426 4-core Hyperthreading CPU, an energy saving graphics adapter Radeon HD5450 from ATI, 2x 500 GB silent WD Caviar Green in fail-safe RAID1 configuration, silent fans (the CPU has no fan at all...) and a silent PSU. On top of this 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate with a virtual XP to take care of old software that would not work in a 64-bit Windows 7 environment.
In the meantime we have got an outbreak of winter here, the temperature has plunged to -8 C in the beginning of last week and at the end of this week it will go there again. 10 cm of snow on the ground.
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Beautiful winter pictures there, Hans! Here it's continuing with the miserable c. +5 C, wind, rain and clouds. I'm thinking I wouldn't mind a bit of hibernating, personally.
Excellent work with the greenhouse!
Yup, we have kind of nice winter here now, a little snow and some few degrees below the freezing point.
The winter pics are just shot "from the hip" last Sunday and straight out of the D70 with some steps of brightening in post-processing.
I never remember to compensate a step or two upwards when photographing in snow, my snowy pics are always dark and gloomy... :)
The reason is that the exposure system is tuned to think that everything is neutral grey and tries to make a correct exposure from that assumption, making the snow to show up as light grey.
i wish we were hibernating, dear...
Yeah, my dear, some months of hibernating would do us well... :)
Eek, Hans, winter so soon! I'm so glad we don't have any snow yet, and the temperature hasn't dropped below 5 degrees yet. You look as if you've been very busy in any event. Well done with the greenhouse, and keep warm! love to Ingela and the boys xx
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