Day: November 27, 2014

Waited in this morning and lo and behold the parcel did arrive!  Drove in to Glasgow to see some of Wil Freeborn’s pics hanging in the Glad Cafe.  Really pleased I went because the burger and coffee in the cafe were excellent.  Paintings were good too.  Worth the trip into the hinterland of Queen’s Park.

Then it was back into dull, dreary Glasgow City Centre.  Full of women (Men do Christmas shopping on the 24th Dec after being in the pub all afternoon) buying everything in creation to make Christmas the jolly, merry, happy time we know it isn’t.

Ask yourself, when do we use the words “Merry” and “Jolly” other than at Christmas?

Frosty undergoing official testing before being pronounced biologically clean.

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I waited in all day for a parcel to be delivered by Royal Mail. It turned out to be a Royal PITA. Of course, it didn’t come. 4 hours wasted.

Later in the afternoon I did get out for some photos. Weather was pretty dull, so I had to do some ‘shopping on this one to inject some colour.
Basically, I did almost no levels adjustments in LR, but selected it and a bright coloured leaf pic and exported them as layers to Photoshop. Placed the leaf layer on the top and used gaussian blur to blend all its colours together. Changed the blending mode to Overlay and reduced the opacity a bit and got the image you see here.
The method works best with a strong main subject.

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