So yesterday found us in the garden potting up the geraniums. We do this every year, pot the geraniums, leave them to water into the pots for a week or two, then we put them up on shelves in the garage until May. If I’m lucky, June won’t make me get up there and water them but once during the winter.
Anyway, while we were working away on the geraniums, we spotted this visitor…
It’s October. Well into October actually. The leaves are turning and falling, the stock market is falling.
Monday is Thanksgiving Day back home in Canada. Second weekend in October. Yesterday was our son’s birthday, and if you need another one, it’s Columbus Day, so we have lots of reasons to celebrate.
I guess after 10 years of hosting our “Canadian Thanksgiving” here in Bonney Lake, WA. I guess you can say we have a tradition. We always include our good friends Dick & Dee Peterson (have to or we don’t get to go to their house next month.) Then we add another couple to mix it up a bit, this year it was Dick and Mary-Clear Padilla. Add Leah and Greg, as well as Kelly and his girlfriend, Holly. Well you end up with 10 sitting down for a full turkey dinner.
The best thing is dessert… This isn’t my best photography, but it is some of the better mousse i’ve helped make.
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Leah is making the outer coat for the mousse cups. Think whipped cream and berries.
Photoshop Elements has a cool feature that allows you to
specify how the editor should open a file.
Why would you want to do this? Because if you open a file as RAW, you can bring all of the power of Adobe Camera Raw to do your initial edits to the image.
(you need to be using PSE 6 and ACR version 4.1 or better)
Take this image of a water skier for example. A really spectacular shot by my buddy Paul Cooper.