Being stuck at home this week has been very frustrating, especially when the sun is shining and I'd prefer to be outdoors taking photos. However, I wasn't going to be defeated, so I sought inspiration from the Photoblog 365 Photo Ideas calendar, where today's theme is cosy. You may remember my little pocket bear, Cuthbert, who starred on my blog back in December. My Mum thought he looked a little chilly with no clothes so she's been busy knitting him an outfit. He's now a very well dressed bear about town, with trousers, a scarf (not pictured here - it wasn't that cold indoors!), hat and a cape! He looks decidedly cosy so he was a natural choice for the theme.
For my close up picture I had another try with the Panasonic G9's high resolution mode and, boy, does it make a difference having more light to play with! The high res RAW files come in at a whopping 80 megapixels and some 10,368 pixels long on their longest edge. The level of detail when you zoom in is astonishing and Cuthbert, with his fuzzy texture, was the perfect subject to see this. Of course, the files are enormous (a 461MB TIFF file once I'd tweaked him in Color Efex Pro!) so my aging computer complained a lot! However, that should soon be a thing of the past as my other activity for today was ordering a new computer. The new laptop will have an i7 processor, 32MB of RAM, a 1TB solid state hard drive and a 4K screen so Lightroom should absolutely whizz along once I've got it up and running! My current computer is almost five years old so I'm hoping the spec of the new one should keep me going for at least another five....