Photography

I think I’m going to attempt a 365 day photo capture challenge. šŸ“· 1/365 #mbnov

I’ve been messing around with the polarr app to add a border to some photos. It gives then a more artistic flare, I think. šŸ“· #mbnov

It’s possible that this is Bears happy face. #mbnov

I’ve taken two trips on AMTRAK over the past few years. My favorite aspect of riding the train is that whether you’re riding through a small town or New York City, it feels like you’re strolling through the nation’s backyard. #mbnov

Experiments in Photo Editing: Impressionism

While capturing some fall photos last month, I took a few generic shots of trees that I thought would look pretty cool just because of the colors. After looking them over and doing some editing, I was a bit underwhelmed. On one of them though, I tried messing around with the sharpness a bit. Specifically, I reduced the sharpness to make everything a bit blurry. I thought it looked pretty cool and tried to figure out a way that I could try to make the photo look as close to a Claude Monet painting. After thinking about it a bit and tweaking some of the creative options in Luminar I came up with this edit:

It might not look as much like a Monet painting as I wanted but I think it turned out pretty well. I tried out the same line of editing on a few others and was really surprised how well the effect worked for certain photos. Here are a few others that I think turned out pretty well.

I guess I’ll just post a photo for today…

Anyone care to guess where?

#mbnov

Apparently yesterday was National Cat Day. Here is Waffles (front) and Bear (back) doing what they do very well… lounging. šŸˆ

10/14/2020 @ 9:45 AM - Beaver County, Pennsylvania, USA.

Inspector Office. #adayinthelife

16.8 mile day hike on the AT this past weekend. As usual, it was very cathartic. šŸ“·

Finally… a tilt-shift photo I’m happy with. Taken with my Mavic Mini, edited with Luminar 4 and Affinity Photo. šŸ“·

Today… just a picture from this weekend. šŸ“·

Smithfield Street Bridge, Pittsburgh, PA.

Iā€™m going to skip ahead to the day 6 prompt in Jumpstart your Journaling. This prompt is to write a 6-word sentence that describes your life.

I often try the difficult path. šŸ“·