Until the next day when I got to the drive-through Starbucks in Key Largo. I picked up my rental car with no issues and drove through Miami for the umpteenth time that year. When a Piece of my Car Fell Off in Key Largoįor my second trip to the Keys this year, I was to fly into Miami and drive down to Key West before flying back. Here are some of my bad times that I took with the good. In 2015, I got locked in a vestibule with a cockroach in Avola, Sicily, and had to call my Airbnb host to set me and my mom free.Īnd in 2016, I fell backwards and slammed my head on the bedpost in Passau, Germany, giving me my first concussion ever and necessitating a hospital visit in Munich.Ģ017 wasn’t one of my worst years, but plenty of shenanigans ensued along the way. In 2013, I developed giant hives in Busan, South Korea, and it was nine months before they stopped popping up on a daily basis. In 2012, I got my credit cards hacked while in Portugal and Spain. If you have problems at home, the road could potentially make them worse. I like to write about those times every year because it’s a good reminder that travel is not a panacea to all of the issues in your life. And the times when you’re frustrated at trying to order food that you end up at McDonald’s. The times when you’re lonely, missing good times at home. The times when you’re sick as a dog and can barely drag yourself out of bed. Don’t be fooled by the perfect photos and smiling selfies - behind all the awesome times on social media are the times when you’re racing for a flight and terrified you’re about to miss it.

Instead this post documents my migration from Lightroom to Capture One. So to the reader who is here expecting a comparison between different alternatives to Lightroom, this post is unfortunately not it. Needless to say, my attempts at using other software I listed earlier were quite lukewarm.

Now seems to be the right time to publish this, with the last standalone version of Lightroom 6.14, having just been released. After using Capture One for several weeks, I made a decision to stick with it despite its hefty price tag. A demo version 10 of Capture One gave me 30 days to test it, after which I was able to continue evaluation by signing up for a beta copy of version 11. I shortlisted several potential alternatives – Capture One Pro, RawTherapee, DxO Optics and Darktable among others – but was able to try out only Capture One Pro properly. It seems only a short while ago when I was undecided on the RAW processing software that would replace Lightroom.

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