Lightroom Version 3 Improved Performance

I've recently purchased the upgrade to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 and have been extremely impressed by the performance improvements. On Lightroom 2.7 my catalog with 85,000 photos was very slow to open and even slower to find/filter images even on a PC running Windows Vista 64 with quad core processor and 8Gb of Ram.

Lightroom 3 resolves this and is almost instant to filter photos to various slice and dice criteria.

Photos of Billy Elliot by Stage Theatre Society (STS) at Hazlitt Theatre Maidstone Kent

Photos of Billy Elliot performed by Stage Theatre Society (STS) at Hazlitt Theatre Maidstone Kent

The show received rave reviews - one here
http://www.list.co.uk/event/20068958-billy-elliot-the-musical-stage-theatre-society/
A few quotes from Doug:
"On to Electricity, Fantastic singing and incredible dancing that I have only ever seen once before and that was in the West End, this earned Billy a well deserved Standing Ovation which you could see from his face he was loving every minute of it, and it did last that long.
The finale was Brilliant with all cast getting cheers and applause and more standing ovations for Billy and the whole Cast.
A big well done to the Director,Crew,choreographers and everyone else involved, Great Show, cant Wait for the next one."

Photos of the show will be available at the cast party.

New Kia Sportage Spy Shots during testing

I've finally managed to track down the vehicle that I spotted last year being road tested in Kent. It turns out to be photos of the new Kia Sportage, these shots were taken in Aug 2009

More info here