Wild Cornflowers

I must say that I was happy to come away with any sort of image after the day I have had. My friend, Eric was over, ostensibly to do some photography with me.

However, we first of all wanted to sort out his printer problems. He has a relatively new Epson R3000 which had developed an air blockage in the magenta cartridge which could not be sorted with the normal ink head cleaning. Through the technikcal support team at Fotospeed he was advised to use a specialist piece of software which would clear the system by flooding ink through it. Unfortunately he is a Mac user like me and this software is only available for PC. However, I am able to run PC programs as both through Parallels and through Boot, so he had brought his printer over to sort the blockage. It is not often that I am using the PC aspects of my computer and I found that the internet connection kept freezing and then when it was working the Antivirus program was refusing to allow us to use this program despite my best efforts to disable it. Eventually it got sorted through the techie adviser at Fotospeed taking over my computer and managing to adequately to disable Bitdefender. I am afraid the whole experience confirmed me in my prejudices against the PC platform.

By the way, just in case anyone is thinking of buying an Epson R3000, I have one myself and have never encountered these sort of problems and of all the printers I have had, it is certainly the best.

In any case photography was a none starter as it has been raining on and off most of the day. It did give us some time to look through some of my prints for our annual exhibition in November and that was helpful though I will still need to do a radical cull of the possibles unless I want to be printing and mounting for the whole of the next month.

By the time he left and I was taking the dogs for their afternoon walk, the weather had just begun to brighten sufficiently for me to grab a couple of shots for my blip. Not very inspired but, at least, colourful after a distinctly dull day.