In Today's Headlines
This photo was taken along the western coastline of the Guérande peninsula, where we pulled off to the roadside to watch the sun set into the ocean... again, a weird sight for a US East Coaster. This pic has been "enhanced", thanks to:Picasa!
I just wrote about this in today's Pipe Blog posting about useful software, but wanted to mention it here too because of its incredible usefulness for anyone with a crapload of travel photos. Don & Carolyn, if you're reading this, you might want to download this program - It's amazingly handy for organizing the photos on your computer and presenting them in an easy-to-sort, easy-to-print way. One click of a nice big button will take you to online print services that can produce glossy hardcopy photos of your digital pics and mail them to you, just like a traditional developer. Finally, there is a simple solution for my eternally-leaning horizon lines! Et voila:
These are just a few "Version 2" shots from around our area of Brittany, after being run through the auto-lighting correction of Picasa. Trés cool!
Woof!
Apparently I'm not the only person who's noticed the peculiar French aversion to spicy foods, according to this article on Expatica. Having witnessed the exact arm-waving behavior described, it made me grin.
Brit'Mag-ged
We had a visit the other day from a photographer for Brit'Mag, an English language bi-monthly magazine for everyone living in Brittany. It's a beautiful magazine, with the usual nice travel photos and local culture articles, and apparently our article will be in the December issue. I can't say I'm very excited, because what these sorts of articles usually mean is a lot of random calls and surprise visits by total strangers who've read about us and find our story "just fascinating". Yes, thanks, glad you enjoyed, move along...
Although, they did get some nice photos of the 2006 FdP pipes in progress, so FdP members might be specially interested.
2 Comments:
I was on the cover of Brit'mag and have only had one phone call from it...so either that means you don't have to worry about the phone ringing off the hook or my photo stunk!
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Ahh, that's reassuring. Maybe it's low circulation. We've been in several magazines since arriving here, as well as on a radio interview series that ran for several days. Haven't sought out ANY of these things, we just occasionally get calls from "so-and-so with X magazine" wanting to do interviews or articles. It's a bloody nuisance, most of the time - an interruption from work that costs us shop time and pays nothing but annoyance, in terms of random people finding out about us and wanting to come here and hear the story of morta, or see the quaint old pipemaking shop, or whatever. Humbug, I say!
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