It's Monday and I would prefer to be in .....

I don't like Monday's. I love the weekend of indulgence. Digging in my garden, reading, scrapbooking, art journal pondering and then brutally Monday morning is back to WORK. And work to me is stress which I hope will change if I can change jobs this year. Fingers crossed XXXXX.

Anyway to assist me I am going to post a photo on Monday morning of a place where I would rather be. Well this is easy given that I would rather be anywhere than work. So where would I like to be today?

I would like to turn back the clock 2 weeks. Sitting on a beach Ngapali, in Myanmar. Sun setting over the Bay of Bengal, dinner for 3 of the freshest seafood costing USD8 which of course includes a can of Myanmar Beer. No sound of traffic, just the sound of waves on the rocks and beach. Looking out to the sea, the lights of the cuttlefish fishermen on the horizon. And the most amazing sunset ....

Hard to imagine why I would want to be here, isn't it?

Day 3 and playing with Lightroom Beta 3

I downloaded the beta version and have spent an hour playing around with photos taken for PAD 2010. I don't want to import too many photos into this version as the blurb says that the program needs to be deleted and then reinstalled if upgrading. I am assuming that sidecar files are deleted???

Anyway here is today photo. I darkened the dark areas and added a dark vignette. I love the effect.

The white is not so overexposed. Perhaps I should just learn how to not overexpose bright colours. This was never a problem with film just digital. Still so much to learn... Sometimes I wish for the good old days of Kodachrome 64. 

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Garden rain

Recent rain has been timely for my late planting of the Summer garden. I spent Boxing Day putting in Snake and Winged Beans, Sunflowers, Rockmelon and Cucumbers. All seeds but now they are sprouting. Back now to daily watering as clouds dissipate into humidity.

We lost some plants while away so I went out this morning and bought a blueberry bush, rosella, tumeric, parsley, red papaya (thinking of fresh papaya juice with a dash of lime), chillis and ornamentals for front door basket.