Trevi Fountain

This was one of the places I was thrilled to see; the Trevi Fountain in Rome! I adjusted the color saturation and the brightness and contrast to really bring out the blue in the water and the golden color of the stones that usually get washed out by the blazing hot sun. It actually hurt my eyes a little bit while I was taking the shot, but it was so worth it! I also used the sharpening tool and I am quite pleased with the result. Sure this picture may have been taken by a thousand other people, but this one's special because it's mine!

Lovely Wedding

This is a photo of my beautiful cousin Christine Braiden (now Christine Thomas). She picked one of the most gorgeous places to get married. And I love her so much that I wanted to make her look even more beautiful! I used the Glow feature in Paint. Net and adjusted the contrast to highlight the nicest features on her face. The next pictures are just to showcase the happy couple!

Gecko Art!

I took this picture when I was in Tortola, BVI. The original is much different than this one! I wanted this one to look more like art, something you would want to hang on your wall and have people go "wow! Where'd you get that??" I change the hues and the saturation and then used the Posterize feature in Paint.Net and played around a little bit with the settings and finally settled on this one here. I love bright colours and while we were on our cruise in the Caribbean there was no shortage of that! The photo below is the original, which I love as well.

This little gecko just posed perfectly for me. I think he thought he was camouflaged lol, because he didn't move for a good 10 minutes! Once again I was incredibly blessed to have such a wonderful subject. Hope y'all like it! That's enough for now, I should've been in bed hours ago!

One Wing

 

This was another picture I took in Seville (Cadiz). I just loved the way the light was hitting the one side of this "Guardian Angel" statue. I really adored visiting some of the older parts of Europe, it's so beautiful there. And this place was no exception.  What really made me want to take this shot, was the fact that this angel only had one wing. It intrigued me and it was something that struck a chord in me. I felt sad, knowing that, at one time, this angel was whole, but the cathedral it was guarding had obviously fallen into disrepair at one time. When I asked why it hadn't been fixed, the tour guide replied that the town had only raised enough money to restore the inside of the church and not everything on the outside. It's just such a shame, something so beautiful will never be put back together, so that others may appreciate it. Now of course I did some editing to this photo, but only a little to enhance the green colour of the moss that was growing all over the statue. I wanted to emphasize the state of disrepair it was in when I saw it. What I'm trying to do with a lot of my shots is convey the emotions I was feeling at the time I took them. How am I doin' so far? I think I can do better. Anyway, that's all for now!