Have a look at this! The original photograph was the coloured one, and I have applied all these different effects to it. How cool is that?! A lot of you might know how to do this already, but I just think it is SO clever. I used the Picasa 3 programme and when you go into the Edit section, you use the Piknik button. I'm sure I shall be using it quite a lot in my photography from now on. Who needs special lenses etc when this little thing does it all for you! Oh the wonders of modern technology.
I saw some good news in the media yesterday, and I thought how wonderful it was to learn about someone who is recovering from what was, originally, thought to be a very serious illness indeed. I am talking about Michael Douglas. He was photographed in November looking so thin and frail, whilst undergoing chemotherapy for throat cancer, and then, yesterday, he was photographed on holiday in Hawaii with his wife, Catherine Zeta Jones, along with his ten year old son and seven year old daughter. What a difference a couple of months can make and doesn't it go to prove, yet again, how our bodies can go through such awful traumas and treatments, and, thankfully, in many cases, recover and go on to good health again. Apparently, Michael will learn in the next few weeks whether or not the cancer is in remission. Let us pray that this will be the case, and also pray for all those who are going through this dreadful disease at the moment.
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November 2010  I'll finish off today with a poem by William Arthur Ward (American dedicated Scholar, Author, Pastor & Teacher). |
May we all sing more joyful songs in this New Year, 2011!
