Bordeaux En Primeur 2008 - Recession??

Is there really a recession?

No doubt en primeur prices are down, I think still a little higher than 2001 prices, Chateau Latour was sold out in hours (for 2 tranches)!! I just was thinking I finally can afford a few bottles for drinking in maybe 20 YEARS - SOLD OUT!! And between 1st tranche and 2nd tranche, the price went from S$285 (US$1 ~ S$1.5 Singapore dollar) to S$338 (almost 20%) - Are these people seriously going to drink them or just another speculative move! I am no longer much interested in anything higher priced than this. People have to be reminded wines are perishables and will not last forever (though 20-30 years is a LONG time)

Read some news here

Leoville Barton is priced at about S$60 a bottle, I think very good price (+S$20 shipping & tax = $80) I would say and hope I will manage to get some - I will drink them

There are quite a few interesting wines this year - I will to keep an active lookout for them.

Seems like the good stuff goes very fast! Is there really a recession I really wonder!!

Tone Curve in Photoshop/Lightroom

Managed to buy a legal copy of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom recently after a free trial download from the internet. It was a very neat piece of software to organize a big collection of pictures and able to do some touch up on the pictures. It is pricey (USD$250) though and if you don't take tons of pictures, I honestly think it is an overkill

Why lightroom for me?
- Non-destructive, the original image is always untouched even with all sorts of adjustments applied
- workflow, import - touchup - upload to flickr + watermark + bordering - different export presets
- backup catalog, and easy to move directory and update the catalog accordingly
- integration with CS/Photoshop Element

One thing I find most lacking is ability to export a video slideshow to a DVD. It export to a pdf slideshow OMG!! I don't understand

Anyway some interesting youtube tutorial
- tone curve adjustment
- adjustment brush