Jaci Dawn

I carry my camera every where, but that doesn’t mean I come up with a lot of fascinating subjects for photos. Today was the same old: geese, ducks, some faerie rings (toadstools). <Yawn>

My walking partner wanted me to take a photo of the cherry blossoms, but I pointed out to her that there wasn’t really much chance of a good composition. The trees are surrounded by businesses and parked cars. But she insisted. I then pointed out the tree would be back-lit (not a good thing).

But I took the photo.

I had to play with the saturation to get it this clear (I should have kept the original, but I didn’t: it was really dark & back-lit).

Then I had this inspiration: why not totally photo-shop it? I hop between Paint and the Arcsoft Photoimpressions program I downloaded last January (hmmm I see there’s a newer version available!). Photoimpressions is not as easy to navigate as Adobe photoshop, but it isn’t difficult and it has enough tools that I can have fun with it.

Anyway, the end result:

Amateur, but not bad. And it only took me about an hour.