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Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - Bosque Birdwatchers RV Park, San Antonio NM

Mallard, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, January 24, 2011
Mallard, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, San Antonio NM, January 24, 2011

A simple matter

It should be a simple matter to take this photo into Photoshop and remove the weed off this guy's bill, and I'm sure it is, but I'll be darned if I can do it without investing the time to learn to navigate that bloody obtuse program.

I find Adobe's software interfaces in general to be arrogantly obtuse to navigate and Photoshop is especially so. I use Adobe's Lightroom 3 to catalog my pictures and do most of my editing and I've gotten reasonably good at it, but I'll be darned if I can move over into Photoshop and get anything done. The interface is different and not intuitive enough for me to pick up on the fly. Why oh why must it be thus and so, after all they do come out of the same house? Bah!

Night camp

Site 10 - Bosque Bird Watcher's RV Park, San Antonio NM

As My Breathing Evened Out

As my breathing evened out, I began to notice other sensations. The water felt different from any other water I'd ever swum in, as if it were more solid than fluid, as though I were swimming through a liquid Sno-Kone. [swimming in 33 degree water / 34 degree air]

Swimming To Antarctica, Lynne Cox, The New Yorker, February 3, 2003

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