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Congratulations to David and Hannah

Once again I haven’t posted for some time!

My son David became engaged to Hannah on Valentines day, and they called in last night to show me the engagement ring. πŸ™‚

I’ve recently been playing with my old Olympus E20 camera, hard to believe that many years ago it was the first digital camera that I used for weddings to master the transition from medium format. The cameras that I’ve used since then are so much faster with a major leap in image quality, pixel count and usability but the Olympus at a mere 5 mega pixels is still quite a capable performer. These two snaps were captured as jpeg images (the Olympus is even slower capturing in RAW format) using the in-built pop up flash. The images have just had a quick adjustment for colour balance, contrast and saturation in Photoshop using the iCorrect Edit Lab Pro plug in and then saved for web. Quite strange once again doing image tweaking in Photoshop as professionally I’ve been using Lightroom for some time. I still use the Olympus now and again as a walk about camera when I want something with a little more control than my point and shoot Fuji F11 which seems to live permanently in my pocket and is a very capable snap shot camera.
Here’s a picture of David and Hannah’s new puppy taken last night.

puppy

And here’s a picture of Tiegan taken a couple of weeks ago.

Tiegan

My mum had a new sofa and chair delivered yesterday so I called over to see them this morning, they’re in dark brown leather and look very nice, the leather is also very soft and comfortable. Another trip over there in the morning as the tap in the hand basin in her bathroom is stiff but I didn’t have any tools with me this morning.

A busy and fun filled week

Claire came to stay with us for a few days this week. πŸ™‚

We visited quite a few places and here are some photographs taken with the Fuji F11 point and shoot camera that I carry with me all the time.

Prinknash Abbey near Gloucester.

Claire feeding the ducks.

Prinknash#1

A brightly coloured bird.

Prinknash#2

Claire feeding the pygmy goats

Prinknash Pygmy Goats

Claire with some of the tame deer

Prinknash - Deer

Amelia Trust Farm near Barry.

Piglets

Amelia Trust - Piglets

Claire making friends with some piglets

Amelia Trust - Claire with Piglets

Claire photographing calves

Amelia Trust - Calves

The local Peugeot dealer.

Claire checking out the new Peugeot 207 convertible at Griffin Mill Garages – verdict nice car but too small, it’ll have to be the 307 convertible!

Peugeot

Mothers Day lunch at John and Ida’s in Pontypridd with my mum was excellent.

Claire left after lunch for the drive back to Marham, unfortunately it was a very long journey due to traffic jams and accidents but she did see Jeremy Clarkson in his Ferrari on the way!

A quiet Tuesday

I visited the local Tesco with the intention of filling the car up with petrol but the gigantic queue made me decide against it πŸ™

I went into Caerphilly, the car park at Castle Court was very busy but luckily I found a space on the first attempt. I did a little more shopping, it was much busier than yesterday.

I filled the car up with petrol at Morristons, no queue πŸ™‚

Had a late lunch at my least favourite place – no prizes for guessing. The image below is taken with my Fuji F11 point and shoot compact, so easy to use compared to my professional cameras.

MacDonalds Nantgarw

Called in to see my mum, she hasn’t been very well since the weekend and she still looks quite under the weather, so far she’s refusing to have Christmas lunch with anyone and wants to spend Christmas on her own for the first time ever – parents!!

VAT Return to complete this evening – one of the joys of being self employed!