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Merry Christmas …

Thursday, December 24th, 2009

Well its Christmas Eve, shopping is done, the presents are wrapped we are all ready for the visit from Santa tonight :)  Today we braved the city and went to visit the infamous christmas tree at the QVB (Queen Victoria Building) the tree starts at Ground level and the star at the top reaches up into the dome 4 floors higher …. its always amazing and beautiful, as is the QVB.  After lunch, the venue unanimously voted by the kids (you can well imagine where we ended up) we headed to David Jones, who always deck out their windows in wonderful christmas themes.  This year it was christmas carols, the kids, Rose especially loved all the moving animals :) … A trip down to Martin Place and the huge outdoor tree and took a rest in its shade.  Tired and grumpy we headed home on probably the highlight of the day, the train ! ..

Merry Christmas, I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season, see you again in 2010 …

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The view from level 1

The view from level 1

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The beautiful stained glass windows

The beautiful stained glass windows

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A gorgeous shop on the top floor, beautiful things !

A gorgeous shop on the top floor, beautiful things !

Photoshop …

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

I thought I would share, what appears to be a common photoshop problem.  I bought in a photo from Lightroom to crop and add a watermark, but for some reason, the hand tool seemed to be stuck on.  I couldn’t select any other tool.  I assumed a restart would fix it but no, so after consulting by good friend google, I came across a website saying that he had had the same problem and the 154 comments below where saying they also had the same problem …… very weird ! … some thought it was a preferences glitch, but any way, someone always has a solution.  So if you have this problem, to fix it .. Edit>preferences>and click on reset all dialog warnings.  All fixed …

So after all that… the photo i bought in to crop and watermark :) A tiny feather we found around the pool yesterday….

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Sunday, December 13th, 2009

Lucky me, another lunch and photo walk with friends :) …. taken a little while ago, but with this crazy time of year I have been pretty slow in getting posts up on either blog.  These photos were taken around the Northern Beaches, and lunch was by the water around Church Point.  Not too many flowers out at the moment, but there always something around to photograph.  This day it was the weeds, big tall grasses, and teeny tiny weeds where we had to lie down on the grass to get them :)

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