Monday, May 29, 2006

how to waste an entire day

enter a work photo competition! By the time you "enhance" the photos in photoshop by sliding the wee saturation and hue bars up and down to find the optimum tone and then adjust the contrast and brightness, crop out the crap around the edges and then rotate them slightly to make sure that the horizon is straight, it's time for lunch. After lunch, head down to the pharmacy to get more than you are allowed to enter printed. Then proceed to spend several hours mulling over which ones to put in. ask everyone who walks past for their opinion - sure to be different and not at all helpful in making a decision. Finally decide on the final three but these need a bit more cropping, so go back to step one. Then fill out the entry form which requires some creative writing about how you acutally took the photo and a snazzy title. Then painstakingly stick the photos onto the mounting card, ensuring that they are on straight. Bingo - it's almost time to go home. To fill in those last few minutes, write in your blog about your new found method of procrastination. Brilliant!!

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