I had just read a PBase PAD comment from someone who was on the non-SI time measure of Nikon Standard Time, measured as the number of PADs in the year to date. The number was rather more than mine, which motivated me to find another shot to take that lunchtime. Though I didn't realise that I had such a large gap since the previous one; I intended to keep up a pace of at least one or two per week. Why not 7? I stopped beating myself up over that quite some time ago. At present there are three things that are holding back my PADing:
(a) Video. My time is currently split between still imagery and video imagery and right now, at this moment, video is taking priority. I'm hoping that that will be less so when I can finally read a page from the script and do it in fewer than 10 takes.
(b) Tagging. I don't want to have thousands of images that I can never find again. I already have enough problems with older ones. Accordingly I don't put up a PAD until I have tagged every image in the folder with keywords. The problem is that Adobe Bridge's keyword tagging system is one step short of pathetic. Prior to posting this image I have been trying to create some metadata templates which will speed the process; ones which can assign multiple keywords based on location, light, subject and so on. However the process will still be more tedious and time consuming than it would be had Bridge been decently designed.
(c) Olympus raw files. My version of Photoshop is CS5. CS5 does not support the RAW data format of my current OMD E-M1 camera. Consequently I cannot read those files directly into Photoshop. Why not upgrade, I hear you ask. First of all, the way Adobe treats its customers these days it doesn't deserve to be paid for endless upgrades that you pay through the nose for. That, however, is a separate rant. More importantly Adobe does give you a method of converting the current series of ORF files so that they can be read by Photoshop CS5; specifically, the Adobe DNG (digital negative) converter application. The problem is that it completely screws the colours from the original ORF file. That makes me worried that the same would happen inside the current version of Bridge, in which case I would be paying (a lot) for nothing. Consequently I end up having to go through a longer workflow of having to convert the ORF files into TIF files via Olympus's own software, then import the TIF files into Photoshop. Obviously, this takes more time.

And just to add insult to injury, you cannot apply keyword data to the ORF files which brings us back to point B.

In short, I have to find a way of severely truncating my workflow (and remembering my video lines a lot better) if I am to ever have any hope of getting back to close to a photo a day.

However when I saw this scene with the dark clouds and bright sunlight hitting the stark white linear Maritime Museum building accompanied by the black and yellow striped boom gate, I could see a scene that would be likely to be painted by one of my favourite artists Jeffrey Smart who has of course inspired quite a number of my photographs. Unfortunately he won't be painting it any more since he died last year, but for many his influence lives on and probably always will.