...As I am discovering whilst working on one a photo from my recent trip to Peru. I waited and waited for the blasted thing to get out of the way, but it wouldn't budge. I guess I just need patience with the clone stamp tool, unless anyone knows of a better way to remove foreground objects!

Thanks to all those who have wished me well with my exciting tropical bug. To give you an update (without any nasty stuff, I promise), I'm feeling a lot better and seem to be back to normal. However my course of medication doesn't finish until tomorrow evening, so the real test will be what happens after that. Fingers - and toes - crossed... At least the experience has given me some free time to work on photos.

Anyway, all of this 'news' is rather trivial. The real reason that I wanted to update my journal today is that I've recently come across some excellent photos here on dA that I wanted to feature - so here goes!