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Typical November walk

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These days I don’t go anywhere exciting to hike, but I walk my dogs every day around the neighborhood. Come along with us on a November walk.

  • Setting out.
  • Hen and chicks
  • Dogwood
  • Dogwood with seasonal confusion.
  • Nasturtium leaf with raindrops.
  • Lace leaf maple.
  • Withered maple leaf
  • Sidewalk and sky.
  • Bright pink leaf
  • Looking up at the sequoia.
  • Sidewalk and sky
  • A turkey?
  • Rosehip
  • Agapanthus seed head
  • Coming home

Friendly Friday: Whilst walking and Lens Artists Challenge #123: Found in the Neighborhood.

Africa, China, Japan, Snapshots from a Happy Life, South America

Postcards from a different time

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A time when we could be out and about.

I tried out some of the suggestions in Sandy’s post. This is using the media plus text block.

King Penguins

Volunteer Point

Falkland Islands

These are from messing about in Canva:

Happy memories to all.

For the Friendly Friday Photo Challenge: Postcards from the Past.

Flowers

Any way you look at it…

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My rose is about done now after a windy, rainy week and last light the wind changed and it’s gotten fairly chilly. Still it was a nice little bloom. I’ve been playing with different ways to use the picture of it.

Here are a couple of different black and white treatments. One on the lighter side and one on the darker side.

  • Nik collection Antique plate II effect.
    Nik collection Antique plate II effect.
  • Nik collection pinhole effect.
    Nik collection pinhole effect.
My rainy day rose in black and white.
From the basic image to a partial sepia effect applied in the GIMP.

Since last February I’ve been experimenting a lot with different photo processing methods. I’ve spent a lot of time looking at different ways of creating and using monochrome…you’d think it would be simpler in black and white. But there are so many different ways to take the color out and adjust the light and dark that it seems harder than plain old color. Lately I’ve been rather liking applying the monochrome partially or overlaying the monochrome and color photos with different layer blend modes.

Posted as part of Friendly Friday: Two ways (Actually I used 4) and Brashley Photography’s Mid-week Monochrome.

If you take an interest in different photo processing methods you might like to take a look at the one-to-three photo processing challenge, on my other website.