New Year coming up!!

I hope all who read this had a very Merry Christmas with their families. I'm old school, so I will say Merry Christmas because that's what our family celebrates. If you celebrate something else, then that's great and I'm happy for you too!

Although I have been sick this week with a cough and sometimes flu-like symptoms, I was still able to get on my computer. So I finished up my last project which was putting pictures of my sisters and myself from our Mediterranean Cruise trip on a DVD! That was a first for me, and trust me it was a challenge. First of all I had to go the DVD route (which I had purchased a stack of DVDs just in case I was going to need them for a project), since the CDs I had wouldn't take all the photos even though I had resized them from their RAW status to JPGs, and to an even smaller size, but large enough to be able to be printed if need be. I even added music to it, which I wasn't planning on doing, however, it just worked out that way. I just used my MSN Media Center to do it. I was lucky too in picking music I didn't even listen to before selecting -- yikes -- that's risky! For some reason a few of the first photos loaded didn't rotate, even though they were already rotated in the file. I don't know what was up with that - maybe someone can share some light on that subject?? I thought of calling my nephew but I didn't. So that project is done and they are off in the US Mail!

This morning I just happened to look out the window and there was a cloud by what we call our 'lion' on the hill. The cloud looked like it was smoke coming out of the mouth of the lion, so I ran and grabbed the Canon T2i and clicked off a couple of shots. I liked the black and white version the best.

I also spent some time today looking through my negatives from Europe and I have enough there to keep me busy for a looooong time! I'm anxious to get back in the darkroom. I think I will warm up by developing some film for my son that I haven't done yet! I want it over with and off my list!!