Hi everyone,

My family and I have spent the last few days at my sister-in-law’s place looking after her four lads while she and her husband were down in Melbourne. Hence no posts from me.

Today’s post will look at the writing/editing that I did there and also at a photographic experiment of mine. Given that I am no great photographer, I beg your indulgence. I need to get better as fast as possible because we will be travelling half way around the world in a fortnight’s time. While in Europe I really want to take photos to remember.

Finally, I have been nominated for the Premio Dardos Award, so let’s see what that involves towards the end of my post 🙂

Writing and Editing

I received encouraging feedback from the little teaser regarding Pari. So I have decided that this is the way to go. This said, I sat down with my laptop and tried hard to remove unnecessary words. There turned out to be quite a few. I did this following reading several blogs and articles where authors described editors’ impacts upon their drafts. Big message – no excess words. Hopefully I have achieved this.

The end result, with some additional story has been added here.

I must admit that I have tried to rediscover my old teenage angst and added this. I’ve also tried to recall the feeling of knowing that you are attracted to someone but that it is hopeless.

Photographic experiments

So I have owned a Canon 60D for a couple of years now, but never learnt how to use it. Horrific, eh? Well, I know how to point and click in automatic and I do love the shots. But I want to do more. So now I have started shooting in RAW and I want to test if what the articles say is really true – that RAW holds an awful lot of image data.

So experiment 1 was to take a photo at