Visiting Ellis Island was a great history lesson. I don’t know that I have any direct ancestors who passed through here — so many families do. At first, I was working on editing the whole picture. Then I zoomed in to the torch for some reason and realized I wanted to focus on that. There’sContinue reading “Liberty’s Torch”
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Potting Shed
One fall weekend, we attended a wedding on a beautiful piece of property in North Carolina. This potting shed was part of that. I wish I hadn’t have gotten that modern building in the background of the pic, but this challenge is about working with what I’ve got. I did a lot to this pictureContinue reading “Potting Shed”
Wild mushrooms
Small, unassuming Never to gain much stature Nestled with giants We found these little guys in Humboldt County, California while we were visiting the redwoods. The minuscule and the majestic in a symbiotic relationship. I cropped the original photo to focus more on the mushrooms. I lowered the highlights and increased the shadows. I used aContinue reading “Wild mushrooms”
All the candy!
I’ll just take all the suckers. Kid in a candy store (River Street Sweets in Savannah, GA). This is so classic! The original photo was harsh with no feeling and a little yellow. I’m still enjoying the matte effect so I went to the tone curve slider and made it matte. I also cropped toContinue reading “All the candy!”
In His Hands
These great frog sculptures were installed in the Fayetteville Botanical Gardens for some time in 2014. I love the detail. The original wasn’t greatly composed – I’m missing some of the top of the orb. But it was pretty simple to make it look a little better. I sharpened it, decreased the contrast and increasedContinue reading “In His Hands”
Macy’s Parade – Spider Man
Spider Man, weaving his way through the city streets. And all the people are watching to see which bad guy he’ll fight off! Like pretty much all of my parade pics, this one was dark and lacking contrast. I increased the contrast, clarity, and lightened the shadows. I increased the grain on this one justContinue reading “Macy’s Parade – Spider Man”
Not So SAHM 