Welcome to Claire

Claire Archer arrived on June 27th 2011 weighing 8lbs 4 ozs.

A gorgeous daughter for Carly and Brad and our first grandchild.

The staff at the hospital have been very attentive, despite the busy schedule, with babies all over the place.

Claire's other grandparents Graham and Julie and great Nan Pat along with aunties and uncles Tamsin, John, Penny and Ryan and all the extended family will ensure that Claire is well loved and spoilt ;-))

More pics at Flickr

Curdnatta Photographers - PhotoShop Tutorial.

At the June meeting I did a tutorial on "Adding Skies".

Here is an overview of the process for those who could not attend.

• Choose two images that compliment each other.
• Make a copy of the background of your main image by RIGHT clicking your mouse on the LAYER named background in the drop down menu on the right of the screen and choose DUPLICATE LAYER.
• Go to the SKY image and select the whole image .... either by using the rectangular marquee tool or by holding down CTRL and A.
• Copy the SKY and paste it on to your background.
• Drag the SKY layer so that it is sandwiched between the background and background copy layers.
• Use the MAGIC WAND tool and select the sky on the top layer.... the area will be surrounded by dashed lines... If it is not all selected adjust the Tolerance on the top tool bar and try again.
• RIGHT click on the selected area and choose FEATHER and adjust to between .5 and 1... this makes a softer edge.
• CUT , DELETE or ERASE the area.
• To deselect ( remove the dashed lines) hold down CTRL and D.
• Adjust the LEVELS of each layer to your preference.... go to IMAGE - ADJUST - LEVELS and a move the arrow to adjust light and shade.
• REMEMBER to merge or flatten layers before you save your new image. LAYERS ... FLATTEN IMAGE.

Stretching the Boundaries.

A customer at Curdnatta Gallery needed a piece of art in blue to complete a decorating assignment. The only piece that fitted the requirement was a small blue pastel.

Quick thinking and the wish to experiment led to a photograph of the piece being printed on canvas at the local printers. I am quite happy with the results.

Baby Shower

Baby Shower, a photo by Georgie Sharp on Flickr.

Only a month to go till grandchild number 1 is born!
The baby shower afternoon tea was a lot of fun with friends and family invited to afternoon tea.
On a beautiful Autumn day all the family silver, china and embroidered tablecloths came out for an airing and looked resplendent laden with miniature cakes, tarts, pasties, sausage rolls and sandwiches.
There were lots of lovely gifts and of course silly games and tips to educate the mum to be.

Melbourne

My visit to Melbourne provided the perfect opportunity to do some serious BABY shopping with Tamsin. We don't know if this one is a boy or a girl and finding unisex baby clothes was a little tricky. According to Tamsin it saved us a lot of money ;-)).

Before John flew off to Cambodia to take part in the OXFAM photoshoot we all went out to lunch at Dalesford where the highlight (apart from the magnificent food) was the feeding of the kookaburras that fly in once a day for a meal. Looks as if they get prime pieces of steak.

The Autumn leaves were putting on a great show and I just loved the different landscape, considering it only seemed like yesterday that we were at Uluru.