My baby, Marina snuggled up on her cat bed on a cold morning this week.

Tilt-Shift Effect

I have applied a tilt-shift effect to these photos I took in the Guildhall Yard in London to simulate a miniature scene. I used Adobe Photoshop's Lens Blur filter using sharpness gradients extending from the middle of the image to the top and bottom.

PINK ROSE

A photo I took of a rose to which I applied the find edges filter and then a colour burn layer in Photoshop CS4

And the same photo with an added layer set to overlay using a texture called Writing on Parchment by Jerry Jones of Shadowhouse Creations.

The original photo taken in Monet's Garden in Giverny when I visited in May 2008

Art by Me

St Mary's Convent, Woodend Queensland. I did this painting in my senior year of high school.

GARDEN BENCH

A photo of a garden bench in my backyard with the same daguerreotype effect added

A RIVER IN FRANCE

A photo I took while in France to which I applied a daguerreotype effect

iPad has Arrived

My sister Beth's iPad arrived right on time at 10 in the morning. I picked her up from work at lunchtime so she could open it and set it up. Very easy to set up and use!

iPad has shipped

We got an email this morning to say that the iPad has shipped. Woohoo! Still, I have to wait to my sister gets home from work to see it.