With the server down, life became quite boring. So I followed the call to get out and take photos. But when I came in again, NikonGear was still down, moore booooring. In desperation I opened my until now unused Photoshop 8CS, and loaded smallish .jpg files (raw did not open) and played with different sliders. I think the result shows a profound identity crises, triggered by the lenghty downtime of the server hosting NikonGear. May the server not fail in 2018 and keep all photo enthusiasts forever happy.