So I went to Nova Scotia for the long weekend for a get-together with some girlfriends. I went all by myself, sans husband and sans child. Having learned from my recent trip to Cuba to keep my expectations for photos low, I figured I’d spend the whole weekend socializing and not take any photos. We did spend an afternoon wandering around Lunenburg, a UNESCO world heritage site. It’s quite a pretty town and I found myself shooting parking meters. At first I resisted, thinking that I really didn’t need any more parking meter shots, but then I decided to give in and use parking meters as a sort of theme to link my Lunenburg images together. You’d think it would feel restrictive deliberately shooting one thing, but instead I felt free! It was so much fun, and I’m very happy with the images.

Before I went away, a discussion over at pixelated image made me decide to try shooting RAW and processing in Adobe Lightroom. And I’m so glad I did! I can’t believe the difference all that extra data makes. And Lightroom really is a LOT faster than Photoshop for adjusting contrast and tone and all that.

I’ve got a few more parking meter shots to process and then I’ll post them as a new gallery here, but in the meantime I offer this teaser: