Haines Hall on the UCLA campus

For various reasons I went to Haines Hall on the UCLA campus several times in September to take pictures, mainly at midday and early evening. It is one of the older buildings on the campus, and right next to such landmarks as Royce Hall and Powell Library. I shot with a Tokina 11-16 f2.8 and a EF-S 17-55 f2.8 IS. I ended up with several hundred pictures, most of which I deleted. From the ones I kept, I made a selection that I uploaded here...

http://canghuixu.smugmug.com/gallery/6221732_NSWb3

Most of these photos have had perspective correction applied in GIMP 2.6. I am really impressed with the latest iterations of GIMP, the user interface is much more straightforward than it used to be. My needs are pretty basic and it seems to do everything I would like. Increasingly I am heading towards using Lightshop for basic editing like cropping, simple touch-up, rotation, white balance and tone corrections and then RAW conversion, followed by GIMP for perspective correction.

Here are a few favorites...