The Babbling Brooks

The Awesome Authors Challenge!

Alyce over at At Home With Books has issued a challenge for 2010 and I've decided to jump in with both feet. This will be my first book challenge! I'll let Alyce tell you about the challenge. Here's her words... "The idea behind this challenge is to read works by authors who have been recommended to you time and again, yet somehow you haven't managed to read any books by those authors. These are the authors that everyone else tells you are awesome, thus the "Awesome Author Challenge" title." I'm going to join at the "moderate" level which means I'll need to read books by six different authors during 2010 to complete the challenge. I have two (maybe 3) authors in mind already and will be thinking about who else to add. If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them! Want to join in? Click HERE to read the challenge rules and sign up!

Twilight.....I Caved

and ordered the whole series. John and I went to see the movie last week. Somehow I missed even hearing about the books until it was almost time for the movie to be released. I like the story, but I did think the movie was a little cheesy. Especially some of the makeup...especially Dr. Cullen. Couldn't they have at least smoothed out the pastiness a bit? I'm guessing there will be more to the story as I read the books. BORDERS has a feature on their web site that allows you to look inside a book and read a few pages. Judging from what I read the written word will be far better than the movie. (And I'm hoping the books arrive before we leave on our trip so I can take a couple with me!) How about you....have you read the book and seen the movie? What do you think?  

Thank you, Mr. Kelby!

If you take a lot of photos like I do, you've probably had this experience. You've forgotten to change the settings on your camera back to where they should be. I took a few photos indoors one evening where there were incandescent lights, so I changed the white balance setting to avoid a color cast. The next morning we went to Glacier Park and boarded the 9:00am boat at Lake McDonald. The water was calm and was reflecting the peaks, a beautiful day at the park. I happily snapped away taking photo after photo. After we got off the boat I looked at the photos and....Ackkkkkk! My photos looked like this...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beautiful shade of blue, but not so good for photos! I didn't know if they could be saved or if we'd be making a point to come back to the boat real soon. Just last week I had ordered "The Photoshop Elements 6 Book for Digital Photographers". With a little research and a little trial and error I was able to change those blue photos to this...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to Scott Kelby and his book I was able to save my photos :) If you use Photoshop Elements it's well worth the dollars. Be sure to get the one for your PE software version!