Messing around with paint.

With a bit of time on my hands, I thought that I would get all creative with some of the photos that we have taken. Here is the first result; it only took me an hour.......

The photo is of the Wellington cable car, taken from the Botanical gardens. I used Photoshop Elements 8 to get it the way it is looking now, and I think that it is quite a striking image. But there again, as it took me an hour to work out how to do it, i am bound to be impressed! No doubt there is a quicker way to do it, and hopefully i shall find this out as time goes on.

Seeing as I am on leave for the next 2 days, expect to see many more images appear from our travels around New Zealand, and from my experimentations with Photoshop.

If there does happen to be a guru out there with the programme (and knowing how many millions of people read this blog, there must be...?), then please feel free to share any of the tips with me.

Jocelyn's feeding time!

This moment of pure magic was captured a few days ago. There was no prompting from behind the camera either...

Jocelyn is coming on really quickly with her 'talking', she is most definitely making herself known.  Unfortunately there is a slight Kiwi twang to her words; "pen comes out as "pin" to name just one, and there is all sorts of other gibberish.  Some say she sounds like her mother!?

We have the Queens Birthday weekend to look forwards to this weekend, and we'll be spending the long weekend up in Tauranga with some friends of ours.  The weather is looking like it will be good, so hopefully i'll manage to get a spot of sea fishing in, while the Snapper are still biting.

Piggy Wiggy needs drawing now, so I'd best turn to my artistic talents (?) and see what I can do.