Shadowing the city.

Living near 2 cities with fantastic photo opportunities virtually guarantees I will not get  out + use them, especially with 3 young children in tow.

However, despite freezing temperatures a newborn and everything else I was determined to use the time while the 2 older children are out to get out there and visit some tourist type places.

Being blessed with a settled baby AND clear blue skies when I saw the Tyne bridge casting its formidable shadow over the quayside I had to climb a very steep hillside risking designer pram damage and section stitch damage to get an unobstructed view but it was SO worth it.

Back to basics

Have you ever done something disasterous to your computer? Well, yesterday I managed to drop a cup of juice onto my macbook. I consider this fairly disasterous. Generally I do back up every month (only once a month though) everything important, I learned this the hard way from having to formatt the hard drive on my last, 8 month old, windows PC. Its something I continued on my ultra-reliable mac, what I did not account for was my own stupidity of course! How many times have I stressed at the kids for moving drinks close to my shiny white macbook while I am working, thousands probably. So it's the ultimate irony that I should be the one the ultimately kill it off. Currently its drying out and I'm hoping the sticky sugar in the juice hasn't done too much damage. I could not bring myself to follow the (very sensible but gut wrenching) suggestion of a fellow mac-addict to pour more water on it to rinse the sugar out off components.

So I find myself without any PS actions, and actually without lightroom at all so am having to shoot in JPEG again. That said sometimes its good to be unable to rely on LR to correct your mistakes, it's good practice to think better about what's through the lens before pushing the shutter release like I used to with a film camera. So here's my back to basics shot, anyone with a spare windows copy of LR is my new best friend.....