Sepia and The Sea - Venezia

Here is another pic from the same vacation. Of course ... it hardly needs introduction.. beautiful, timeless Venezia.

The sepia does give it an old world ... dreamlike quality.

My old camera was not digital, so these images are subject to my poor scanning. Poor things!

Hard Drives And The Amalfi Coast

I finally managed to dismantle my old laptop and re-claim my hard-drive. My main aim was to retrieve documents and references to old work projects (very boring), but it was a pleasant surprise to find some travel pics stored there also. These images below were taken during my trip to Italy in 1996. This wonderful town of Atrani is set on the west coast of Italy, just south of Positano and Amalfi.

For your viewing pleasure, I have the same photo in the original colour......

and a sepia version which I quite like.

I am not sure why I cannot load my pics larger. Will have to work on that one!

Creative Avoidance - what's your flavour?

I often find that my most creative moments arise from the attempt to justify my avoidance of some mundane (yet necessary) task. My latest avoidance is 'doing my tax'... arrrgh.. I am sure no-one enjoys this task, but I find it too similar to work which already invades a large portion of my personal time. Usually I will justify time wasted in rearranging furniture, painting some odd unused item, and even once I resorted to washing out the council bins (yuck) to avoid studying.

Image: Richard Downs

My latest 'creative avoidance' is blogging. It started out with just perusing the beautiful interior and design blogs out there ... then I started my own. This of course led to a daily exercise of changing my blog appearance. And when I couldn't find a template I liked, I created a second private blog so I could play and practice with html. It would probably help if I read the instructions and guidelines, but me being me, I prefer to just jump in with edit and learn by trial and error.

But the day has come!! (drum roll please!). Today I must knuckle down and do, or at least start, my Tax...

I would love to hear what creative avoidance you employ?