December One Photo Focus

Once a month the “One Photo Focus” Challenge hosted by Stacy Fischer at Visual Venturing gives participants a chance to practise their digital dark room techniques on a single photograph.  For December we are all working on a botanical image provided by Julie Powell: a white tulip.

The Start of Another Odyssey

Tomorrow is D-day for our 2015-16 Summer Cruise and we can’t wait!  Just think: eight weeks on board Take It Easy, bringing her back from Yeppoon in Queensland, to Port Albert near Wilson’s Promontory in Victoria.  Although to most land-lubbers the thought of being cooped up on a boat for that long is hard to…