Catherine Bowman's Blog, page 19
September 3, 2013
Expertise Vs Experience
Today is the first day of school around here. My kids are now both in high school, Boykid is just into grade 12 and Callie in grade 9. He is rather blah about it but she was beyond anticipatory. She wasso excited, (I said eager, she called it ‘prepared’), that she had her course schedule, […]
August 25, 2013
Motorcycle Macros
Good morning! (Again!) Peter is taking apart his new motorcycle – the 1981 Honda CX500 – to clean and repair and basically make it new and improved and HIS so I decided that I wanted macro shots. I have several, so I’m just going to get right to it. Explanations for Photoshop work will be […]
Challenger
A Dodge Challenger, actually. 2013 I think. I saw this car yesterday and I had to take a picture. And of course while I was editing pictures this morning for the photoblog (there is a longer blog coming) I just had to find a way to highlight the colour. Colour splash technique of course! […]
August 19, 2013
Consignment
It’s a scary thing to try to sell yourself, ya know? So that’s not what I’m doing. I’m selling my books to bookstores. Part of that is me – I am the author, I am the one saying ‘here, buy my product – but mostly, I want them to see the book and like […]
August 17, 2013
A Study in Contrasts
You all know that my favourite subjects to photograph tend to be flowers and things I find out of doors. And that’s what this week is all about. I took those pictures and plugged them into Photoshop. With almost all of them I toyed with the contrast and brightness balance. I think I ended […]
August 11, 2013
A Bird, a Bridge, a Skyline and Water
Hello! Man oh man have I ever been sick this week! We went to Niagara Falls on Tuesday to visit some friends and I have to tell you, we had a lot of fun, it was a lovely visit. But it was toxic as hell. We got stuck in a line of traffic at […]
July 31, 2013
Argh!
Yes, ARGH! It’s the last day of July, AKA the last day of CampNaNo and my total word count ended up being… *drum roll* … 12,083 out of 35,000. *le sigh* I’m frustrated. I wanted to accomplish something, to finish the story. I really like Nina’s story. I think this month was a fail […]
July 30, 2013
Shades of Pink Project
Doug and Mac is finally sent away! I named the storyI Already Am. It worked for me because of the ending. I couldn’t think of a name, I struggled to find one all the way through the writing. It wasn’t until I was part way through and the last lines popped […]
July 28, 2013
50 Shades of Green
Good Sunday morning! It is the last weekend of July and I am sitting here chilled! The temps have dropped from somewhere around 100*F to the 60s. That wouldn’t be bad, perfect temps really, I like it around 70, but there is a fierce southwest wind blowing up a storm in this low […]
July 19, 2013
A Guest Blog!
Hey people! I was recently asked by my friend over at Nourishment3to do a guest blog about Multiple Chemical Sensitivities. I’ve talked about it here before in this blog. So here is the guest blog. Let me know what you think. If you have any questions, I’ll do my best to answer them. Muah! […]
