Utopia

After spending the afternoon driving along the narrow tracks of roads on the Isle of Skye around Tarskavaig and Tokavaig we passed through this valley and I thought something I’ve never thought in any of the other places that I’ve traveled.  I thought that I could live in this little valley and the rest of the world could fall away and I wouldn’t know and I … Continue reading Utopia

Morning Walk

Please click on the images for a larger view I realize that one person’s ‘early’ is another’s ‘the-day-is-half-over’  but this is about as early as I get.  While staying near Thornhill, south of Glasgow, in our converted stable – I got up early enough to see the morning mist – and walked around the corner to the bridge over the River Nith – and enjoyed the … Continue reading Morning Walk

Photo Editing: Layering for dummies

Stacy over at Visual Venturing hosts the After Before challenge and we all love her for it.  🙂 Though I have looked at Photoshop layering a number of times I have never been able to get any joy; I’ve never been able to figure it out.  HOWever, a fellow blogger pointed me towards Pixlr where even I have had some measure of success.  I don’t know … Continue reading Photo Editing: Layering for dummies

Photo Editing: Artistically speaking

I wanted to see if I could make this into an image with a more artistic feel to it;  to see what I could accomplish without using one of the one-click apps that convert photos to oils or watercolour.So I brought up the details and liked what was happening in the sky and the branches of the tree. I adjusted the colour in the sky I added … Continue reading Photo Editing: Artistically speaking

Photo Editing: One Four Challenge January week 4

I’m joining Robyn’s One Four Challenge this month – one photograph processed four different ways over the month. This time I tried to change the time of day.  In Photoscape I used the linear gradient feature several times, to the top and to the bottom, layering until I got something approaching what I wanted.  In Sagelight I added HDR, adjusted the vibrancy and added a … Continue reading Photo Editing: One Four Challenge January week 4

Photo Editing: One Four Challenge January week 3

I’m joining Robyn’s One Four Challenge this month – one photograph processed four different ways over the month. For Week 3 I am going with a monochrome.  I can’t remember every step I took in this because I tried so many things but primarily I played with the power curves, and vibrancy using Sagelight.  I also cropped the sides a bit to eliminate some effects that were happening there … Continue reading Photo Editing: One Four Challenge January week 3

Photo Editing: One Four Challenge January week 2

I’m joining Robyn’s One Four Challenge this month – one photograph processed four different ways over the month. For week 2 I decided to aim for a  dawning-of-a-new-world look; to dramatize the scene from natural to the surreal. Using the original image I adjusted the power curve and took the image to the extreme dark side. Then I went into the HDR details where Sagelight has … Continue reading Photo Editing: One Four Challenge January week 2

Photo Editing: One Four Challenge January week 1

I’m joining Robyn’s One Four Challenge this month – one photograph processed four different ways over the month.  Here is week 1: This was taken at Pointe du Grouin on the coast of Brittany.  The light was thrilling that day – I nearly knocked my sister down trying to get some shots before it changed  🙂    The original is below – you can see I gave … Continue reading Photo Editing: One Four Challenge January week 1