Hurray! Adobe finally releases a DNG codec for Windows Vista which will allow you to view thumbnails for DNG (Adobe Digital Negative) files in Windows Explorer and Windows Photo Gallery.

I’ve been anxiously waiting for this as it simplifies my photo management since I don’t always have to load Lightroom or Bridge just to see the image and correlate it back to the filename to manage in the file system.

Be warned, this is just a release candidate, but it’s better than nothing!

I finally finished sorting through and processing the shots from that crazy Cirque du Soleil shoot.  I got it down to about 250 and I’ll short list further to get it to about 50 for the final hand-off.  It’s been a wild ride juggling my day job at Microsoft, my personal life, other photography gigs and trying to process these photos.  I’ve really accumulated a backlog of photos I have to sort through, but the good news is that the total number of photos from those shoots are far, far fewer.

Here are 3 shots from what I recently uploaded to Flickr:

I’ve created a Facebook group for my photography endeavors that you should all join! Consider this my shameless self-promotion

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Trevin-Chow-Photography/17873920773

Photograph by Danny Ngan at our last photo meetup.

The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) open on May 22 and I can’t wait! Last year I got out to to see 3 films, and hoping to at least double that this year. Last year was crazy for me to schedule due to work but I’m hoping this year I can organize my time better and drag along at least one person with me on my movie adventures.

It seems they re-did their website this year and it is much more difficult to navigate than I remember.  Last year, you were able to browse the movie schedule and pick and choose movies to add to a personalize calendar. That way you could easily select movies and see conflicting schedules before you bought tickets.  With the new website, I can’t find a way to do this.  It might be just because the tickets aren’t for sale yet, so I’m hoping this changes when the online box office opens on Sunday.