Lightroom met Betsy
First I need to introduce you to the new addition of the family Betsy, she s tough, she s smart, she s Betsy, Betsy Bloomer. And she sometimes smuggles mermaids in the Bath… don t ask me y I still haven t figure it out!
Anyway, last week I went on a road trip with Betsy, we stopped by my aunt s house… my aunt is not a hippy but she s a very chilling, cool kind of aunties! And she has all sort of bizarre things in her house or old things she got from the family including the very old but nice looking camera… and Betsy and I suddenly found the urge to get a pic with it. On top of that because I particularly love Red and I ll thank again the Creator of Betsy for the custom made outfit and red colors I decided to play a bit with Lightroom cause it s been a while…. and here we go…
I used 2 presets with LR:’Vignette’ to darker the background a bit and ‘Color Isolate Red’ 
Dún Aonghasa Cliffs
Hi, haven’t been there for a while, my bad, did not travel anywhere to click new shots till last weekend. My grandma was there for a week so we went visiting the Connemara area in the north west of Ireland. Famous for its 12 hills well tiny ones but still. This time we also took a boat to visit the biggest island of the 3 Aran Islands called Inismór. I gotta tell you, on the 50 minutes way… we went from laugh to green faces when the boat started checking it was funny… less funny after 20 minutes. One of the staff member was roaming around laughing with small blue bin bags in use for other stuff for sick passengers if you know what I mean.
Anyway, on arrival we tool a small bus tour and we visit The cliffs, they are similar to the Cliffs of Moher except that these one do not have any security fences to protect us from i dunno a suicide accident! The weather was not that great between showers and windy time but it gave amazing colors to the shot I published today and also a couple of rainbows we saw. When I took that shot I was literally on a vertical position, on the rocks with my arms bending over the cliffs…. my baby canon was checking looking down seeing the raging sea 100 meters down… I particularly like this shots for the various type of colors of the cliffs, the sky and the sea
To see more of my trip pics check out Smugmug
De retour après une longue pause…. sans voyage…. sans photo 
Ce weekend mamie est venue me rendre visite, nous sommes donc allés visiter le Connemara sous les airs de Michel Sardou… oui oui j’insiste bien, mamie avait ramené le best off de Michel Sardou et alors que je roulais à fond de cale avec ma 107 au grand désespoir de Guy n’étant pas fan des tournis et re tournis des petites routes du connemara, Michel Sardou chantait à tue tête Les Lacs du Connemara. Pour la première fois nous prîmes également un ferry pour se rendre sur les Iles Aran et particulièrement Inismor la plus grande des 3. On prit un petit van pour faire le tour de l’île avec notre guide célibataire (il l’a bien répété 12 fois), on s’arreta aux Cliffs du site touristique Dún Aonghasa. Ils ressemblent un peu aux Cliffs of Moher pour ceux qui connaissent sauf que ceux là n’ont pas de barrières de sécurité… non… tu peux donc te suicider si tu veux 
Le temps était plutôt mitigé cochon d’inde entre pluies et vent mais cela m’a permis d’avoir de jolies couleurs sur ma photo… Pour prendre la photo j’étais littéralement couchée sur le ventre les bras et surtout mon canon chéri pendouillant dans le vide… les diverses couleurs de la roche, du ciel et de la mer m’ont poussé à poster cette photo
Pour voir le reste des photos du Connemara c’est par là Smugmug
The Big Wheel
One of my old time favorite picture that I took back in 2007 in Dun Laoghaire, ireland (pronounced Dun Laree:P) I guess, so at that time I did not have a DSLR yet, I had a kodak bridge P880 as far as I remember. Like people said, the camera does not do all the trick, the eye of the photographer has to be good 
Not that I am saying my picture is awesome, but I just love it. I was almost on the ground when I took that photo because my camera did not have a big angle, and I wanted to have the big size effect. I added the effect ‘antique’ with iphoto on my mac to give a certain genre
Une de mes photos préférées prise en 2007 a Dun Laoghaire (prononcé le Deun Lairie au sud de Dublin pendant l’été erm erm quand je dis été…. je le dis viteuf surtout en 2007. Bref, n’ayant pas encore de réflexe j avais a cette époque un kodak bridge P880, belle bete pour bridge, il m a bien été utile aux Caraibes Bref, j’aime beaucoup cette photo, j’étais pratiquement couchée par terre pour avoir toute la roue. A cela j’ai ajouté l’effet ‘antique’ disponible sur le logiciel iphoto de mon cher mac
The Big Wheel, Dun Laoghaire
Au pays des couleurs…. India
In the category ‘Travel’… I call India. Last April, I went 3 weeks on holidays to India. I stopped first in Hyderabad, where I got the chance to visit many great places and monuments including this temple. I have to say I am a big fan of these hindu temples, I saw many of them, some pretty old where the color of the paints were fading, I saw some in-progress ones, completely white and some very colorful like this one, where the colours were smoothly mixing with that flashy green of these palm trees leaves. Unfortunately I was not allowed to visit the temple itself… apparently my dress was a tiny bit too short (right above the knee ;( ) Anyway, I still had the chance to see it and click it
Aujourd’hui dans la categorie ‘Voyage’ je demande l’Inde. Recemment, je suis partie 3 semaines en Inde. Je passais mes premiers jours a Hyderabad, temperature exterieure: 38 degres… climatisation dans la voiture: a fond de cale! Ce qui m’a beaucoup plus en Inde et pour ce que j’ai visite ou pu decouvrir, se sont les temples hindu. J’en ai vu des vieux, dont les couleurs se fadaient, j’en ai vu des en cours de fabrication, encore tout blanc, et j’en ai vu d’autres comme celui-ci. Magnifique couleurs, se melangeant avec ce vert des palmiers (je me demande d ailleurs comment ces palmiers survivent avec cette chaleur). Malheureusement, ma jupe m’arrivant tout juste au dessus du genou, je me suis vue refuser l’entree dans le temple ;( Je ne pus l’admirer que de l’exterieur….mais c’est deja pas mal