Thank you for visiting my website. I have many interests - computers, webdesign, painting fine and digital art, writing poetry and stories, photography, music. This site is my way of expressing what I enjoy doing and what keeps me going. I hope you enjoy the journey too. These pages also include my story of living with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Many people have been comforted through our common suffering and in return their emails have helped me tremendously.

My albums at Webshots contain mandalas, painting and photo manipulation with PhotoImpact, my watercolours, oils, pastels, images of Australia and its wildlife and my son's climbing. I hope you'll also enjoy browsing my gallery pages here.

Check out my nature and sunsets photos on my gallery page plus slideshows of where I live. These are photos I've taken from my home in Queensland, Australia. Since I got my Olympus C760 digital camera, I've let loose on my backyard and so my Webshots albums also contain dozens of photos of lorikeets and macro flowers.

My interest in PhotoImpact started in 2000 when I saw version 4 of the program on a pc magazine cover CD. Then I was given version 6. I remember finding it hard at first to understand the Attribute Bar and of course not quite knowing how to get around. From there I've progressed to XL and 11. You're more than welcome to join us at the PhotoImpact Resource Centre board. It's free to register.

I have written a number of tutorials for PhotoImpact. This has been a learning experience and thanks to those people that encouraged me and even tested some of the tutorials for me as I was writing them.

You can read my blog (including my CFS blog "The Chronic Chronicles") at Hillie's Reflections.