Background info

I thought I posted this last week, since I knew I wasn't going to be able to post for a few days.....oops.

Not sure if I have ever mentioned it, so I will here.

My abbreviated equipment list includes:
1) A computer
2) Canon cameras
3) Third party lenses. I do have two Canon lenses, but the others are Tokina, Sigma and a Tamron.
4) A Seagate Free Agent back up drive (stays on the desk)
5) A portable hard drive for on location backups. (All images are copied to BOTH drives as well as to a CD and DVD as well as on the computer. That's FIVE locations.

Software
1) Canon Digital Photo Professional v. 3
2) Adobe Lightroom v. 1.3 (for all my image editing). (I haven't installed the 1.4 upgrade yet) ((I also hear about a LR v 2 in Beta....)).
3) Adobe Elements v. 4
4) Google Picasa 2 (for uploading images to use on the blog)
5) Microsoft Expression Web ( I demoed the program and liked it. I need to buy the full version so I can use it to create my web site).

LR has so many features that I haven't tried all of them yet. I do know that it makes my images much nicer than any other program I have used thus far. If I need to do something with layers, I will use Adobe Elements v 4. But honestly, it doesn't happen often. LR does have a feature that will download images from a memory card. Like I mentioned, I use haven't used it yet. DPP is something I am used to and works for me, at this point. CS3 isn't in the cards for me. Mostly because of the price. I did play with the demo a few months ago and preferred Lightroom to CS3 for my needs.