Leics and Rutland Gardens Trust Trip

Coach trip to Lincolnshire - Doddington Hall gardens including walled garden and the walled garden Normanby Hall. Anyone wanting to come can come as my guest, price is £39, including morning coffee, lunch (ham or cheese ploughmans's) and tours of both gardens

Sunday Sept 5th 2010

Coach departs Glebe road Oadby 8.15am. I have space for 2 in my car to get to Oadby.

The main attraction of our Autumn coach trip this year is to see two walled gardens in Lincolnshire.
Doddington Hall, a great house built in 1595 and still owned by the same family, has 5 acres of beautiful gardens with parterres, mixed borders and a wild garden. Although we have a tour of the whole garden our main interest today is the newly restored walled kitchen garden which contains a very wide variety of produce including many rare and heritage varieties. They use organic techniques, biological control methods and rotate crops for maximum production and pest control.

There will not be time to visit the house but, hopefully there will be time to visit the splendid farm shop where produce from the garden is sold.

Link to the web site

Catie at Holme Pierpoint Aug 2010

Layers with thanks to Steve

This follows on from the BPS Sunday morning Photoshop lesson on layers led by Steve. Very helpful, thanks very much.
I'd got a nice pic of my brother with his little lad Harry

and another which was great for Jack as well but had John's eyes closed.

I wondered if I could transplant the eyes without the help of Photoshop rather than Christian Barnard.

So I managed to open both and put them each into a layer, I then used the free transform tool to align the heads with the top layer on 80% transparency.

Then I made a mask on the top layer and painted in black to reveal the open eyes underneath.

I did a little cloning to reduce reflections in the glasses.

Obviously its much better to get it right in camera to start with, but this was just a moment when Jack touched his little brother and John. All the different hand sizes are special to me.

Barton Marina