
You know you’re a British car owner if you looked at which gauge first?
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You know you’re a British car owner if you looked at which gauge first?

I noted last week that Apple finally released compatibility in Aperture & iPhoto for RAW files from the Panasonic Lumix G1 series cameras. I haven’t used the RAW features of my G1 much yet, as there has been no way to handle them in my workflow. Now that I can, I think I will.
I attended every user conference session I could that featured Aperture workflows and RAW format work at Macworld last week (when I wasn’t teaching MacIT sessions that is!) I REALLY want to start handling all my images in RAW to avoid the destructive nature of the JPEG format work I’ve been doing since I went digital back in the day. Until now I really couldn’t. I’ve installed the new update, and have requested a 30-day trial of Aperture 3.0. I’ll let you know how it goes!
I think the capturing setup failed on me for the return trip, we’ll see later today. Meanwhile, enjoy this ride.
I’ll fill in the details of what you’re seeing a bit later.

I posted this car once before, as part of a larger guessing game, but it remained unidentified. So I’m posting it again. In fact I’ll add another close-up photo of it to give you another hint.

I love this car, and expressed my undying admiration for it to my navigator at the event we saw it a few years back. I picked it as my “car from this event I’d most like to take home.” My navigator thought I was nuts. I imagine once identified all you guys will suspect I’ve lost my marbles as well.
Well maybe not ALL of you, we’ll see. I know some of you also would lust in your petroleum-pumping hearts for one.
The marque has produced some iconic machines and there is one in particular (not this model, but not long after its day) that I have never seen in the flesh and can not wait to be able to photograph its legendary shape.
Today is a “travel day” for me as I’m headed down to San Francisco for Macworld Conference & Expo. This means I won’t be here to hand out hints or tell you if you’re wrong or right until I’m in my hotel at the end of the day. Good luck!


A couple of other viewpoints on the Iso Grifo posted yesterday. Jerome thinks it looks like a Jensen Interceptor. I can see the vague resemblance, but I have to say the Iso is a much nicer looking car. Longer, lower and wider. It is amazingly powerful and sounded wonderful as well.

Here’s a fun one for the weekend. As a practical joke somebody made up a “Just Married” sign on a participant’s car. (which of course was co-driven by two men.) Unfortunately the owner (pictured here) found the sign before they drove off.
Can you name the car?

Apologies for the lack of a CPotD of late. I’ll post a few in quick succession to make up for it.
As much as I like the look of Aston Martin bonnets, I can not tell the difference from one model to another to be honest. I know there are subtle and not-so-subtle differences between DB2/3/4/5/6/etc but I’m not that intimate with them. To me they are like VW Beetles. Damn sexy VW Beetles though. I do know which one this is, as I have other photos that clearly show badging that removes all doubt. Here though, from this angle you’d have to be a real Aston Anorak. Can you name the model and claim that title?