I spent a couple of days on the road last week with my friends over at Gizmo. They were documenting the Gypsum Hills Scenic Byway and I tagged along to grab some fresh stock photography. I hadn’t been on the backroads in this part of south-central Kansas for a few years so it was fun to reacquaint myself with one of the more unusual scenic regions of the state. I found some of my old favorite spots nearly unchanged and others — like my favorite little reflecting pool — to be entirely missing. The formation above was a new surprise. I’d been down this particular road before but evidently not quite this far because I don’t recall ever seeing that balanced rock before. As much as I’ve traveled this state, it is surprising to continue to run across these little treats. You’d think I’d have found them all by now but that’s the beauty of Kansas. The longer you look, the more you see, and exploration is nearly always rewarded.

On other fronts, this seems to be the season for software issues. As I mentioned previously, it appears that my recent WordPress update has disabled the comments on this site. I’ll continue to try and rectify that situation but I’m also investigating new platforms for some new features that I hope to add to my website yet this year.

I’ve also been working toward upgrading all of my Adobe software to CS6. I’m already running Lightroom 4 and have been using the beta version of CS6 for weeks but as of the end of May, the beta version was discontinued since the final version had been released. My transition was slowed somewhat this time due to a special offer I took advantage of where I was able to upgrade to CS5.5 in early May and a free update to CS6 would be provided by the end of May for me to download. Given the amount of Adobe software that I use, this added up to a substantial discount so I purchased my CS5.5 upgrades and waited for my download link for 6 to arrive. By May 30, I still hadn’t received it. I contacted Adobe and they manually added me back into the system and I finally received my link last thursday. On Saturday, I worked through the update process and it went very smoothly (thankfully). Until Mountain Lion is released, that should be the last of my upgrades for awhile. Good news, since I now need to get up to speed on all of the new features of the entire Adobe Creative Suite. At least I have a head start on Photoshop, having used the beta. All-in-all, it feels good being caught up again and feeling like I can get back to work.