Yup, spring is coming, and while we are at this beautiful point in time, I cannot help but think of what wonderful time the fall also is, actually, it is my favourite time of the year, looking forward to it this year too.

I remember it vividly, the fall that is, in 2004 when I first went digital I was all over the place with this poly-carbonate image capturing device, shooting pictures, JPEG's mostly, until, of course, I discovered the RAW file format, haven't looked back since.

So today, while cleaning up my image archive I found this oldie, it's an image I shot with my D70 back in 2004, I was lucky too, this was shot RAW, so I'm able to go back and revise it when ever there are advances made to imaging software technology.

Ran it through Adobe Lightroom 2.3, which has quite a few bells and whistles. I utilized gradients for this image to make it into what I wanted. I think it worked out quite well too.

Well, the D70 is history, I'm now shooting Nikon D3 and D700 full-frame bodies. It's not just software that's improving, digital SLR's has come a long way since the D70.

Image captured with a D70 and AF-S DX Zoom-NIKKOR 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED lens. Written to SanDisk Extreme III compact flash card.