In and around the city centre . . . . .

A few shop signs along Cannon Street in Preston City centre, just along from The Space Art gallery.

'Reflections on a guitarist', or 'Reflections of a photographer', the choice is yours. This idea was scuppered, in some part, by the gallery windows being double glazed. A 'brush stroke' effect has been added in post-processing.

Colourful wall with broken first floor window, above a former (?) Mexican Restaurant in Preston.

Caught this chap, at full zoom, last night (in a grave yard) - this is also quite a tight crop.

Cityscape

A view of the Preston City skyline from the docklands marina.

I have not been out and about for much of the last week through illness, so today's photo(s) are of another famous landmark - St. Walburge's Catholic Church from a couple of different angles (one of these actually includes St. Mark's Church in the background - now converted to residential accommodation).

I can't wait another 24 hours to post another photograph. Anyway, this 'MyFuji' site has some articles on computer manipulation of images, unfortunately for me, using Adobe Photoshop (if I could afford Photoshop I could probably afford to pay someone to do it for me!). Well there was this 'project' to superimpose a sunset over Stonehenge. It all looked very impressive, but I am using Paint Shop Pro 7 - all to do with layers and masks - I normally just use it for cropping and sharpening up camera shake. So none of the instructions directly read across. After an hour of 'promoting layers' and 'inverting masks' it actually worked! But it then took me another hour to repeat the task with another photograph . . . and here it is - a surreal view of the Preston skykine.