We have been cautiously installing Mac OS X Leopard on all of our systems. We have heard a few horror stories about peoples systems being trashed by the installation, but as of yet we have had nothing but success.

We have done 3 of our 5 systems. Two of them have had 100% success and we love the OS. On our “shooting” laptop the installation showed that the new OS is not fully compatible with some of the software out there and that updates are necessary for some applications.

With Phase One Capture One Pro, it proved incompatible. For us Capture One has been on it’s way out for a while. This may have sealed the deal. On a shoot this week we relied on the Canon EOS Capture software (which does function with the new OS) and Lightroom to accomplish the shoot. Capture One is coming out with a new version but there is no tethered capabilities at this point so for us… why bother?

We are awaiting the new software called Phocus from Hasselblad which will be our capture software for medium format and we will probably rely on EOS Capture and Lightroom for small format shoots.

At any rate we are probably going to upgrade the last two systems this weekend and hope that we continue to have the same good luck as we have been having so far.

We know that some pieces of software (like our video board for our editing system) will not be fully functional until software upgrades trickle in over the next few weeks, but our primary software packages work, so we are going ahead with the transition and we’ll let you know if we hit any major hiccups!

October 7th marked the opening of a one-man exhibition of Photographic work by Dana Hursey. Hanging at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music, the 12 pieces were commissioned for the 2007 Pasadena Art & Ideas Festival as part of the Conservatory’s contribution to the city-wide celebration. This year’s festival was themed “Skin”.

The Conservatory wanted to visually explore the interaction between musician and instrument and called upon Los Angeles Photographer Dana Hursey to interpret their concept. An Artist’s Reception was held on the evening of October 7th, 2007 and the series will hang at the Conservatory permanently, a gift from the artist. Limited edition prints will be available through the conservatory with 50% of all proceeds going directly to the Conservatory. To see a web gallery of the series, go to www.hursey.com/pcm