four bottles and not a drop passed these lips

Two old photographers' adages;

A good photographer never shows his bad photos.
A good digital photographer never deletes anything, however bad.

so much for old photographers and their adages.

Actually, I've only heard the second one once - on a quite good BBC series about photography last year, primarily aimed at the novice and presented by the professionals. I have thought about the logic of this rule and I've not been entirely convinced but I've saved everything I've taken nevertheless. (Apart from the time I took the blurred outline of my thumb instead of the beautiful blooms along cecily hill - rule one defeated rule two, no contest, on that day.)

And as well as not deleting the crap, I also back it up! Why? Who knows!

Well, I suppose the logic follows that a digital image takes up little space and I now have a huge and empty external hard-drive to fill and it's easiest to just dump in whole folders rather than individual images.

Now I think I have found a good use for those iffy images - photoshop experimentation. I haven't a clue what I'm doing with it so playing with images that start off bad can't get any worse. But if they do, it doesn't matter, does it?

I say photoshop but there is also paintshop pro which is cheaper and aimed at the amateur with no pennies. The bottle that follows is me playing with paintshop pro;


I discovered the bottle on Pope's Seat in Cirencester Park...


...Alexander Pope, that is...


...the famous poet, I suppose he liked a quiet drink...


...you're my besht friend, you are...