images from me to you

I don't know how many of you work with fairly large files, but if you do, you'll know my pain of waiting. I am transforming (simple rotation) a 44x113" photo right now and I get to watch that bar barely move, gives me plenty of time to catch up on blog reading (when it isn't slowing the computer to a crawl). I have a rather fast new laptop with 2gb of memory (need to go to 4), so the time is considerably less than it could be, but oh why didn't I decide to make tiny little prints my specialty :) I do know that I can't wait until solid state hard drives are mainstream because that is the main speed bottleneck.

Oh and if you are working with large images on your laptop, get a big ol' external hard drive and use it as your scratch disk.

I'll leave you with two photos from my latest shoot where I finished treaty 72 (855 total photos) and did the whole treaty 12 (125 photos).