Genevieve’s Orchids

Genevieve has a few orchids on which she conveys her TLC each day. Two of the plants are returning their gratitude by blooming this year. I snapped a few pictures in an attempt to capture the unique beauty of the blossoms.

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Information for parrot lovers

If you were ever considering getting a pet parrot – don’t. Consider the Lyrebird, its mimicking abilities are remarkable. If you don’t believe me go to:

http://throwawayyourtv.com/2006/08/lyrebird-unbelievable-jungle-bird.html

Just think of the potential of using this bird to answer fundraising calls, politicians at election time and all other annoying calls.

More Photoshop Stuff

Photoshop Masks, Layers and Channels

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I have been spending a considerable amount of time and effort attempting to master Photoshop. It is not an easy program to use and the going is slow. It is a very capable piece of software and once it has been mastered, to a reasonable degree, it can be used to do an endless number of things with or to photos.

Layers, masks ad channels have been the areas that I have concentrated on over the past few days. How they function and interact is confusing; however, I think I am finally getting some of the fundamentals down. As an example, I combined a moon and shipwreck shot (from the WEB) and applied masking and layering effects to come up with the following composite. This is my first (successful?) attempt using these Photoshop tools.