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love thursday: photographs
Finally got a chance to play with the camera and with Photoshop yesterday. I installed the program in Italian, which has made getting acquainted all that much more, um, challenging, but it’ll happen.
I’m thinking I could just reinstall in English, but I swear I chose “inglese” the first time around. Not sure what’s going on there. I’m really only at the cropping stage, but collages are coming soon. I hope. Collages are fun.
For today’s Love Thursday, I’m expressing love for my new camera, in particular that it enables me to share parts of my life with family and friends around the world. Plus I love toys!
These two are as taken:
Now for some fun, here’s the original:
And two with the help of Photoshop from the above photo:
Original:
Shopped, now with less spazzatura:
“To pee or not to pee?” Sorry. Couldn’t resist.Happy Love Thursday everyone!
P.S. Don’t forget that it’s De-Lurking Week for charity!
Leave a comment and $1 goes to the American Lung Association.
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de-lurking early and often
I just read about De-Lurking Week over at Miss Zoot’s place, and I find it a lovely idea.
Today begins De-Lurking Week in which you are encouraged to comment on blogs that you normally read but don’t often comment on. I, myself, am a frequent lurker, but I’ve been trying to de-lurk more lately, mostly because now as a blogger, I know how much comments mean to me.
Now, as Miss Zoot notes, please don’t feel pressured to write anything thought-provoking–even incomplete sentences count. It’s well known that the Spelling and Grammar Police go on vacation during De-Lurking Week, so something as simple as “Me no lurky more” is completely acceptable. Don’t be shy!
And I’m also going to follow Miss Zoot’s lead in donating $1 for each comment to this post and all successive posts this week to charity. Mine will be The American Lung Association in honor of my grandmother, a heavy smoker whose 83rd birthday would’ve been later this month.
Let’s de-lurk together.
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Michelle Kaminsky is an American attorney-turned-freelance writer who lived in her family's ancestral village in Calabria, Italy for 15 years. This blog is now archived.
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