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A Visit to the Botanical Gardens

Waterfall

Originally uploaded by Pavel'.

Today's my last day of holiday - back to the grind tomorrow. So, we went for a nice walk in the botanical gardens and I snapped a bunch of photos as per usual. Could not get a nice view of the waterfall because the old bridge fell apart but this one is not too terrible I think!

Went to Giovani's afterwards and had my favourite bacon & mushroom pasta - I think the last time I went there was about 4 years ago! The portions are as enormous as ever though.

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Pretty

Flower in duotone

Originally uploaded by Pavel'.

I love duotone images, they have that lovely sense of nostalgia rather than the cold and dry black & white monochrome style. Duotone is what old prints look like - for example Sepia tone, which looked that way because it was the best that the technology (if it could be called that) permitted at the time.

I've recently re-discovered duotone thanks to Adobe Lightroom's excellent Split Toning option (also part of ACR 4.0 as included in the CS3 beta). This allows you to colourize a B&W image with two different hues, and the trick is to be very subtle with the saturation. One of my favorite colour combinations to do it with is to use a pale yellow for the highlights and a cold cyan/blue for the shadows, as in this image. Hope you like it.