Short break

Taking a 10 minutes break after a long climb. Note my own personal heated pillow. One of the many advantages of hiking with Miercuri.

Blueberries

Some of the last blueberries of the season.

Dangerous bends

I took the plunge today and switched my Panasonic Lx3 camera to capture raw data before leaving the house this morning. Had no idea if I could process the pictures on my Ubuntu laptop but I did it anyway. And I'm glad I did it! Came across a cross-platform tool, called RawTherapee, which understands Panasonic's raw format and plays nice with Ubuntu. Below is the final result of this experiment, look at the amount of detail in the shadows! One thing is for sure, I won't be switching back to JPEG at least for a while...

Panorama of Doamnei Valley

I took a quick trip into the mountains before work today. Weather was too nice to pass up.

Mushroom time

This morning my friend Stef and I landed in mushroom lover's heaven. We were hoping to find enough mushrooms for a stew but ended up picking more than 30kilos in less than an hour. We're now busy storing them for the winter - steamed & frozen, dried in the sun and pickled.