Diana Is Working Today,

so for myself upstairs,

 to play with some infrared photographs I took whilst at Kew with Steve, above is how they look straight from the camera,

 color swapped,

 colour added, along with structure and contrast,

 then a lot more color,

 black and white,

 and finally a vintage look,

 this is the Princess of Wales Conservatory, it was inside here that the orchid display was being held,

 color swapped, 

 some added,

 and than a lot more,

 black and white,

 and an antique type of look,

 now inside of the conservatory,

 this really unusual plant caught my eye,

 I added a little,

 and then a lot of color,

  next black and white, which I played with more than usual,

 each of these photographs,

 are all just slightly different,

 I Initially liked the first one, but I also like this much darker one,

finally a vintage look,

 Diana arrived home, so time for our evening meal, starting with mussels,

 'Cheers!',

 for our main course, beef pie with crisped mash potato, and vegetables,

 another 'Cheers!',

 for dessert creme caramel topped with a strawberry, delicious, 

 a quick change of hands, we listen to music for part of the evening, then a couple of quiz shows, one from Mrs. Brown's Boys and we were off to bed.

Diana Was At Work Today,

so I popped upstairs to play with a few photographs,

  the first is when we visited Bourton On the Water, the above photograph straight out of the camera,

 but with the wonders of Photoshop, the new image looks for myself so much nicer,

 the same again with this one, hardly a feature in the sky, 

 so one with a bit of cloud put in, with a little more detail in the reflection, looking at this on the laptop, I should have reduced the amount of blue or reflection in the water, it looked fine upstairs, but there it is,

 I then tried this photograph with the Orton effect, not too sure that this photograph was a good example to use it on, 

 next stop Finland, there was for our holiday never what I would call full sun,

so brighten the snow a tad, add a dark sky with a few sunrays and here it is,

as an aside this is the before and after look using a slide in the program,

 next a infrared photograph, straight our of the camera, when we visited Venice,

 color swapped,

 and a little added,

 then a lot,

 black and white,

 finally a sort of old antique look, 

 Diana was working late today, so music, sherry and a read,

 followed by a wine and my evening meal,

 for tonight a selection of Italian sausage and hams, some cheeses with silverskin onions and gherkins, plus a fresh sourdough hard crusty bread, with a pear for dessert, Diana finished work at midnight, so a walk to the bus stop when she called, arriving home at 00.45 it was feet up for a coffee and a chat, and one episode of Have I Got News For You, next for us we were off to bed.

Today Was A Special Day,

it was our wedding anniversary,

4 years ago we were married in the Philippines, so the day started with a card to Diana,

 and here are two photographs,

of that most memorable day,

 back to today, Diana was off to work, so upstairs for myself to play with an infrared photograph, above as it comes out of the camera,

 colour swapped,

 I added a tad more, 

 then a lot more and added some detail to the sky,

  then changed the sky completely,

and brighten the photograph up a bit, 

 back to the normal sky and now black and white,

and finally an antique look, 

 after Diana returned home from work, it was glad rags on, as we were out for a celebration meal, our restaurant of choice? the Kathmandu Masala, in Croydon Road, Beckenham,

 Diana had a mango shake, I started with a sherry,

 and a couple of poppadoms,

 sherry finished on to the wine, and our starters, 

 a mixed kebab for Diana,

a king prawn puree for myself,

 on to the main course, a lamb dish, jhaneko mashu, which is Diana's favourite, choyola chicken and a king prawn masala, were the main dishes, plus peas and mushroom pulao rice and aloo gobi, the bill came to £88.55, we were so full we did not go for a dessert, another excellent meal from this restaurant,

Diana took this photograph of my new shirt and the cuff links she bought for it, next over the road for the bus home, 

where it was feet up for a film of Mrs. Browns Boys, titled D' Mrs. Brown's Boys Movie, I have to say it was a bit of a disappointment compared to the series we love so much, but there it is, that is what you get when you have a troop of blind trainee Ninjas, an alcoholic solicitor, and a barrister with Tourettes Syndrome to help the plot along, with the end of that we were off to bed.