To Learn

So I decided today that something I lack is the ability to manipulate my photographs. Most photographers before digital learned how to get it right in the camera and then how to make it POP in the darkroom. I have never developed film and so I feel sometimes I am far behind those who some people would call Old Fashioned. I wish I had their knowledge.
To attempt to correct this I decided to google (I swear one day Google will rule the world with how dependant we have all become on it) and learn just one new skill today for photoshop manipulation. I chose how to make a picture black and white. This would seem such a simple skill and yet I did not just want to take the colour away I wanted to learn the proper way to manipulate a photo to get the best black and white picture I could.
I would like to thank all the people out there that attempted to make a guide online for dummies like me but would like to point out that step by step instructions are pointless if I still don't know where to find the menu/choices/Palettes you speak about. Instead I stumbled across a website that explained how to isolate a colour.. so after two hours of hair pulling then an hour of figuring it all out.. this is what I'm left with.

Just Layin Around

I have realized today thanks to my son that perhaps I'm not setting the best example of how to be a get up and go personality. I learnt this when my little munchkin of four wise old years saw that I had gotten dressed and asked me where we were going. I asked him why he thought we were going anywhere and he looked at him like I had grown two heads and politely said.."because you got showered Mommy".
Who doesn't love a day where one can lay around in their PJ's all day and do as little as possible. I have come to realize with this little gem of truth however that perhaps in the last while that the PJ days have become more normal than the get up and get showered days. I also realize that perhaps I need to revise this normal so that it's not quite a shock to his system when I act like a normal Mommy should.
Here's a photo that's all about just laying around...