Month: December 2014

The Path Less Traveled

There is always something seen before that, seen again, is totally different.  Normally when I head out to Wildwood for an evening photo shoot and walk, I go toward the open spaces.  Last night, I decided to head toward the little creek that runs through a small oak wood, and went in both directions.  As I perambulated (isn’t that a great word?!), I looked ahead, and I looked back.  The sun was lowering in the western sky, and as I looked, the light was shifting and changing in beautiful ways.  The light was fun to capture as it bounced down the hillside and into the small canyon.  Click on an image to start a slide show.

 

Postcard from the Garden of the Gods

Post Card from Garden of the Gods

This is another photo, taken last year at the Garden of the Gods Park outside of Colorado Springs. The rock formations are wonderful; at times, the drama of the sky is amazing as the Garden abut the Rocky Mountains. The day I took this picture, though, the sky was flat and colorless. Thus . . . I used a sky out of extras in PPS9, and refined the edges using the Perfect Brush, the Refine Brush, and the Chisel tool. Once done, back to LR and a VSCO preset with adjustments to reduce color and work until the colors worked together. For me, the best results were somewhat odd, but in looking at them, they became to resemble post cards from the 50s and 60s because of the colors – not quite right, but expressive of the environment. Rather pleased with this one.