Fireworks are guaranteed to bring out the child in most people- cooing at large bangs and bright lights! This particular shot was taken during a firework display to celebrate the 800th anniversary of Liverpool – only a year before Liverpool was to celebrate being voted European Capital of Culture.
If you haven’t visited Liverpool or the North West of England I would highly recommend you take trip to see us soon!
To coincide with the Apple Red Day giveaway, I thought it was appropriate to post a few shots taken in Hong Kong in 2008.
For those of you unfamiliar with the Red Day giveaway, it’s basically an opportunity to get free stuff from Apple including, if you’re one of the lucky ones, an ipad2 or even a MacBook!
Checkout Macrumors for more infor.
The Apple 12 days of Christmas app available on iTunes has given away some fantastic free apps this year. One such app is the photograph editing application Snapseed. I’ve been using it on my iPad for a few days now to edit photos from various trips as it allows me to quickly edit and upload. One of the nice features, which I have yet to find in an OS X application, is the ability to add creative effects and frames/borders to my images. I usually edit my photographs on my iMac using Aperture. Aperture is amazingly powerful but unless you add various plug-ins, most of which involve parting with cash, adding some effects or borders requires exporting to another application- usually photoshop.
I’ll continue to use Aperture as it also serves as a great way to sort and catalogue my vast image library. However, I’ve since downloaded another photo editing application from the Mac App Store called Photo Effect Studio Pro, which allows the editing and manipulation of Canon raw files (.cr2) to create images similar to the ones posted today. My workflow will have to change a little as it will require the raw file to be exported from Aperture before being opened in Photo Effect Studio Pro, but realistically this won’t result in much extra time being spent on editing images. I’ll post some shots in due course and you can let me know what you think…
I thought for a change I would post a picture of a person rather than a city or landscape. When Mia was about 12 months old she loved nothing more than walking around the garden and pulling all the flower heads off. Now this wouldn’t be so bad if it was the autumn and the flowers needed dead heading, but as it was just the start of summer this meant we spent a lot of time chasing after here frantically trying to stop her from destroying the whole garden! The flip side was that during sunny days it made for some great photo opportunities as Mia sat and “played” with the flowers!
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