Sep 13, 2011
Posted on Sep 13, 2011 in NAPP, Resources and Links | 0 comments
Winston Hendrickson, VP of Adobe Digital Imaging, introduces the Adobe Carousel
Bryan Hughes, Photoshop Senior Product Manager, is the latest inductee into the Photoshop Hall of Fame ( he was instrumental in the JDI additions to CS5)
Scott Kelby releases new book; Light It, Shoot It, Retouch It: Learn Step by Step How to Go from Empty Studio to Finished Image
Nik Software releasing their major update to their Photoshop (and Lightroom) plug-in ”Color Efex Pro 4″ and OnOne Software releasing their “Perfect Photo Suite 6″ with lots of big updates. More on both of these coming soon, but everybody that saw either was over-the-top about them.
Latest News from Scottkelby blog: http://www.scottkelby.com/
Photoshop World Vegas Recap (in Two Minutes or Less)
And something from that “Other” company!
At Microsoft’s Build conference on Tuesday, the company showed off its radically different Windows 8 operating system.
Developed for use on tablets and touch interfaces, as well as desktop PCs, Windows 8′s user interface resembles that of the company’s smartphone platform, Windows Phone 7. The new Windows 8 will also rely more heavily on the cloud than previous versions of Windows.
Sep 11, 2011
Posted on Sep 11, 2011 in 10 years later, 2001 | 0 comments
Dear Lord, loving Creator of us all, we remember with
great sadness those whose lives were taken on September 11,
2001. We hold up to you the victims’ families that they may
know, despite their pain, that they can find solace in your
loving presence. Help them bring their hurting hearts to you, realizing that your everlasting arms
can bear them up and that they cannot be separated from your abiding love.
Please assure us that even though we cannot understand such horrible deeds, you can bring
good out of evil, justice out of injustice and righteousness out of unrighteousness.
Therefore, confessing our human weaknesses, our grief and our struggles to make sense out of
this world, we cry out with the psalmist: “Rise up, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand; do not forget
the oppressed (Psalm 10:12, NRSV). Strengthen our hearts, this day and every day.
Amen.
Sep 2, 2011
Posted on Sep 2, 2011 in About Me, Flowers, New Mexico | 2 comments
I like to find time in my day to stop and smell the roses in my own back yard, and of course I have to take pictures of them and the other flowers blooming at this time. Gladioli (Gladiolus sp.
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Aug 25, 2011
Posted on Aug 25, 2011 in About My Travels, Montserrat Monastery, Spain, Travel | 0 comments
Have you ever visited Barcelona? A very interesting side trip is to the Mountain–The serrated mountain- Montserrat. The Monastery is sheltered and almost hidden in the rocks.
Santa Maria de Montserrat is a Benedictine abbey located on the mountain of Montserrat, in Monistrol de Montserrat, in Catalonia, Spain.The Virgin of Montserrat is a statue of the Virgin Mary and infant Christ venerated at the Santa Maria de Montserrat monastery in the Montserrat mountain in Catalonia. It is one of the black Madonnas of Europe, hence its familiar Catalan name, la Moreneta (“The little dark-skinned one”). 
Believed by some to have been carved in Jerusalem in the early days of the Church, it is more likely a Romanesque sculpture in wood from the late 12th century.
The monastery is Catalonia’s most important religious retreat and groups of young people from Barcelona and all over Catalonia make overnight hikes at least once in their lives to watch the sunrise from the heights of Montserrat.
Legend has it that the Benedictine monks could not move the statue to construct their monastery, choosing to instead build around it. The statue’s sanctuary is located at the rear of the chapel, where an altar of gold surrounds the icon, and is now a site of pilgrimage.
Upon his recovery from battle wounds, Ignatius of Loyola visited the Benedictine monastery of Montserrat (March 25, 1522), where he laid down his military accouterments before the image. Then he led a period of asceticism before later founding the Society of Jesus.
On September 11, 1844, Pope Leo XIII declared the virgin of Montserrat patroness of Catalonia (Saint George is another patron saint.)
Santa Maria de Montserrat
Aug 23, 2011
Posted on Aug 23, 2011 in Uncategorized | 0 comments
This tiny locomotive on a short-track in the research station town of Ny-Ålesund on the Kongsfjorden of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard Archipelago of Arctic Norway is no longer active—but does retain the title of ‘northernmost train in the world’
