Free Prize Draw – FAQ
.I now have half a dozen entries into the free prize draw to have your photo enhanced.What has become clear is there are all sorts of things I just took for granted, as I knew what I was offering and what I was capable of, but not everyone has the same level of knowledge of what’s going on in my head.Maggie and I have a babysitter lined up and are going away for 2 night on our own (back Sunday). We can’t remember the last time we had 2 nights together without kids, but suspect it might be 12 years or more.So for everyone outside my head (and I’m guessing that’s probably everyone) I thought I’d do a few FAQs to help, as

Did I mention the Prize Draw is Free?
.After 36 hours I've been rather surprised that no one has entered an image for me to enhance.Not a single oneNothingNadaZilchMy inbox is in danger of a tumbleweed blowing across it.To say this is a bit of a surprise is an understatement, so I've been trying to work out why there has been no response to something plenty of people seem to have expressed an interest in before.So either no one is bothered at all, or something is causing people to feel reluctant. After wracking my brains I can only thin

Prize Draw in time for the Gifty Season
.Following on from the recent blog post, The camera never lies..., I was emailed by a couple of different friends saying here was an opportunity to use my Photoshop skills to spruce up other people’s photos.So if someone has an image of themselves or a loved one they would like enhanced – perhaps as a gift for the coming gifty season - if it is emailed to me, for a very reasonable fee I can make any adjustments and email it back.Ideas include:Glamourising images – removing or reducing spots, wrinkles grey and stray hairs; changing hair and/or

Floods
.The latter part of this past week saw some pretty torrential rain in this corner of the country. In fact, just across the Solway Firth in Cumbria, towns have been flooded, bridges have been washed away and lives have been lost.Locally, Loch Ken - the loch just a couple of miles north of here - burst its banks to a level not seen in many years. The roads running up either side of it were blocked on Friday, as I discovered when I decided to go up and take some photos.Oddly enough, it was extremely difficult to take some decent flood photos. The water levels were so high, there were no fence posts breaking the surface, they were all under it. Consequ

Hood-winked
.With severe weather warnings across the region, and the rain hurtling horizontally past the window this morning, I drove the kids to their schools. This is only the 2nd time I’ve done this in the 4½ years we’ve lived here, as both the primary and the high school are less than half a mile away (although in opposite directions). But with Rogan and Meg still recovering from the last effects of possible swine flu, it didn’t seem like a good idea to allow them to get drenched on the walk to school, then have to sit around in wet clothes all day.On the drive back, watching the steady stream of kids walking singly, in pairs and in groups along the