Otherwise occupied

I was going to write about our more recent board game experiences but I’ve been a bit distracted the past few days. I recently upgraded to a Flickr Pro account and have been posting recent and older photos the past few days. I’m currently going through photos I took on our holiday to Albany in July 2008.

I took a lot of photos on that trip and some of them are reasonably decent, especially considering my lack of experience at the time. I’m still very much an amateur but I think I’ve improved a bit with practice. I’m also learning the art of discarding bad photos. When my collection was fairly small, I was keeping  just about everything.  Now that it’s taking up so much space, I need to pare it down to essentials. Unfortunately, the indoor shots from our cottage are almost all blurry. I’m keeping a few of them but deleted the rest.

I’m also using the Photoshop Elements software I bought a couple years ago to organise and do minor fixes to the photos. Previously it’s been mostly used to organise but I’m starting to play around with it more properly and feel like I’m getting bit of a feel for some of the simpler fixes now. It’s interesting to see the difference that can be made just by doing an automatic level or color fix. Sometimes I’m even doing it manually…but only occasionally, because I just don’t have the time to go through all of them right now. I also don’t have the confidence in my ability to decide what looks right. Perhaps that’s a skill or ability I will eventually learn or acquire.

And now, it’s really time to call it a night because now I’ve been writing further into the night. Might as well have written about board games…