Great pics EJ!!!  Not to get too sidetracked from the topic of "violin", I use Lightroom a LOT, and I've de-saturated various colors in a pic but I don't know how to only saturate a single item in a pic v. saturating only a certain color.  In PS, I think it's done using masking right,,, which I also use, just not very well; I use Lightroom to manipulate a photo and I use PS to make layered images.  Do you know of a good, simple, inexpensive tutorial on how to do what you did your two pics???

Btw, have you ever been to the fort on Lake Ontario at Oswego?  Some great canons (which have been thoroughly molested btw by SUNY Oswego college students,,, unfortunately I can't exclude myself from that lot) facing the port; very cool setting.  I'll bet you have a ball with the reenactments.

Naska – no vid of your performance!?!? ; wanted to see it!  I'm sure you did much better than you're leading on.

Thanks Kevin, I know it sounds simple, I think I probably need to find a vid to understand exactly what you're talking about; I'm sure it's easy, I just don't know what steps to take.  I appreciate your help though.

Aww Naska – that wasn't so bad! Although I can imagine it was probably the longest five minutes of your life.

I love the Chattanooga Choo-Choo boogie you worked in there.

Now you and Jim just need to work on a duet.

NASKA!  You are adorable!!!  Such a nice job on Chattanooga Choochoo; you looked like you were starting to have fun, you loosened up, it sounded great! 

I'm sure it was so hard though, especially if your performance was in front of people who didn't know you.  Thank you so much for sharing that!

Love your striped pants you looked uncomfortable with the 2 first tunes, probably stressed hehe, I could not do a recital no way, too shy for that, so congrats  on your courage! With the last song you looked like you were enjoying yourself though! I love how flexible your fingers are, something I will have to work on, you are a good exemple of how it should be