Oh i've buggered this up!

appologies for the messy looking blog. i was trying to change the banner and screwed up......am now i'm so p'ed off it might just be best to leave alone, until i have D's HTML skills.

Edit: ok back to the way it was, the banner at least!

Edit2: well the new banner is there as best it will be for now, not sure how to change the width of the frame though!

Playing with Photoscape

I've been playing around with photoscape quite a bit recently now that i have my all sing all dancing camera - well, compared to my last one it is!! So thought i'd share some of my creations.

This colourful montage is a combination of the picture i took of the gardens and flowers at Bressingham, when we went last weekend for D's birthday.

Here are all four baked items for the show, with one of the platters containing half of each cake/tart/cookies, that D took to work.

And finally a quick snap shot of some of the harvests so far this year: Carrot, Sugar Snaps, Kale and Brocolli. Using a macro shot of some raspberries (from the PYO not the garden) as the background.

New Toy!!!

Well i finally settled on a brand and make of camera, the job then was just getting hold of one before they sold out! The camera i had seen at a price that suited my budget and was recommended by a small independant camera shop was being discontinued it turned out as of couse with all technology these day it was being replaced by a newer model which was already in the shops. So my panic then was to see if i could quicky find anywhere else that still had some and see if they were selling them any cheaper.

Many of the main electrical superstores no longer seemed to stock them and those who did weren't cheaper than the independant stores, and i didn't really want to but something like a camera online. With technology i like to have somewhere i can take things back to in i have any trouble. So my choice was this:

Shop 1 - £200 package deal for the camera, a 1GB card and a standard panasonic case

or

Shop 2 - £170 for the camera, then i found a case for £15 and a 2GB card for £12, so £197 in total
obviously i went for shop number 2 - more storage and a case of my choice. so it's fairwell little Canon Ixus II!

It's served me well for 4 years, but its running out of steam, however despite this i think mum wants to use it as an intro to her first digital camera. I'm not sure how well it will work tho anymore, the screen seems to go purple when you try to take photos.
And hello to my new friend the Panasonic Lumix TZ3!

This side by side comparison shows the LCD screen difference - the Canon screen was about one of the biggest 4 years ago as well!

Anyway i have lots of playing to do - lots of settings and functions to find my way around but i'm already pleased with the quality of picture it takes. I took these last night.