Grrr…Lion

This is Soloman. He lives at Dartmoor Zoo Park  and I took it last year at a photo shoot there. The owner of the park is called Ben Mee and he wrote a book called We Bought A Zoo. The book became the current movie starring Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson. I hope Ben made loads of money out of it and that the zoo will go from strength to strength. If you are ever in Devon do pay a visit. It is quite small and not the flashiest of zoos but it is great for photographers and the kids loved it. Soloman is the most beautiful lion I have ever seen and is not at all why I am upset with Lions at the moment.

I use a mobile me account and so have had to upgrade to Apple’s Lion in order to be able to transfer my email over to iCloud. It is one of those annoying things about computers where one small irritation causes a chain of events that leaves you frustrated and penniless. My computer worked fine, I was happy to leave well alone but I kept getting these emails from mobile me saying I had to switch to iCloud or I would lose my email address. In truth I had a bit of time but I thought I’d get it done so I didn’t forget.

So then I had to buy Lion. This actually was okay. It’s not too expensive and I can sync everything on iCloud, not sure I need any of the other features but okay. It took ages to download but in fairness that could be our broadband. The installation was fine, I know a lot of people have had loads of trouble so I guess I am lucky here.

But now my old version of Photoshop, it’s CS which I should have upgraded years ago, won’t work. A new version of Photoshop is going to cost me an arm and a leg (why is it so expensive anyway?) and until I get one I can’t play with any of my new textures that I was just starting to have fun with. So I’m having a major sulk.

On top of that my computer needs more memory and probably a new video card. It was having trouble running Aperture and Photoshop at the same time, which I need it to do, and I bet with a bigger better PS it will be even worse. So anyway, I had some more flower pics to show you but I can’t finish them now so you have a lion instead!