I’ve returned home after a week long holiday with my wife in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Normally, when I’m going to be away from my computer for a few days, I will pre-write a bunch of posts and schedule them to auto-publish while I’m absent. This time I decided to do something different.

As I knew I would be taking a digital camera (my Ricoh GRIIi compact) on the trip as well as a film camera, I figured I would take the chance that I could transfer the images to my phone and then edit and publish them from there. There was a risk that this would go awry and I would end up publishing text only posts, but it was one I felt safe to accept.

As it turned out, I had no problems at all. I was easily able to transfer RAW files from the camera to my phone and then edit them in Lightroom Mobile. It was a little trickier than on my PC, and I had some concerns that my editing might suffer given I only had the phone screen to judge the final results, but they seem to have turned out ok.

I shot a few tolls of film on the trip too, but it will be a while before I’m able to develop, scan, and publish those, but they will appear here at some point. I ‘m currently in one of my surplus periods where film negatives are concerned and have several rolls of images backing up, so I have plenty of stuff to publish here on the blog.

The picture shared today is another of the digital pictures made on the trip, although this one has been edited on my PC and uploaded to Flickr before adding to the blog. It shows the tranquil waters of one of the hotel’s swimming pools reflecting a lovely blue hour sky.

Ricoh GRIII

Taken on 28 May 2024