Choir Notebooks

All our Christmas choir notebooks are piled on a coffee table after we sing joyfully together at the holiday party.

Orchids at the Conservatory of Flowers

Old Book

Point Reyes Beach, February 2006

Poppies

Chocolate in beaker

Chocolate dessert at Blue Bottle - yum!

Labyrinth at Land's End

I hiked all the way out to Land's End in San Francisco (in the park area between the Cliff House and Seacliff, and also right by the Palace of the Legion of Honor) where I found a labyrinth.

It was unexpected; nevertheless, it felt just right.

Mom's favorite flower

Lilacs!

Eat Pasta, Run Fasta

Yay! I believe I have managed to teach myself a better way of converting pictures for optimal viewing on a web browser...still working the kinks out. Of course, as it turns out, this image is not the best way to illustrate my point, as I managed to overcompensate for the lack of appropriate color balance in my previous efforts to have the photo files translate well to the internet.

Thus the extremely intense color in this image.

Nevertheless, I do love this photo of Jonathan -

Nephews

Eyes

Cherry Blossoms

Hrm...colors still aren't coming out quite right...these are from an excursion I took to the Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park a month or so ago...

Godchildren make fun garden helpers :-)

This photo was shot by my husband - I love it!

Still working on the color translation...

I really should go to bed now...

I love this picture of my goddaughter, but I'm not terribly happy with the way blogger is translating the color balance and saturation of my images... I will have to investigate this...but for now, it's bedtime.

Enjoy :-)

Photoshop beginnings, Part 2

C worked up this image for me to illustrate how to play with cropping, shadows, and inserting text. I like what she did with the photo I shot :-)

Also, how great would it be to have a show about an avocado :-P

My thanks go out to C for all that I learned this evening -

Photoshop beginnings

C came over tonight and helped me out with an intro to Photoshop :-) Here's my first try post-lesson: