Every Day is a Gift!
August 30, 2022
Four years ago today we were cruising south towards Vancouver, Canada on the last day of our incredible Inside Passage cruise on the Viking Orion. The sunny day was perfect for sitting outside enjoying the beautiful views.
Shared with John’s Cellpic Sunday
Every Day is a Gift
This week Ritva is looking back to Tina’s challenge #154 – One Photo Two Ways. You can view Tina’s original challenge here. Ritva asks us “to explore the different methods you use to create images.”
I don’t always do a lot of photo editing except for cropping and sometimes a few minor edits. For this challenge I have chosen three images and used different editing techniques to create the final image. In each of the examples the original photo is on the left with the final edited image on the right.
For my first example I took a photo of pink Knockout Roses. I thought the original photo was kind of blah so I cropped the photo to a square with two blooms and replaced the background with black to bring out the vibrant pick blooms.
In this next example I wanted to give this old cabin at the Fort King Georgie State Historic Site a more old fashioned look. First I cropped the photo to focus on the cabin surrounded by the ancient oak trees. I then converted the image to sepia tones.
In this final example I thought the original photo of the blue umbrellas and chairs on the beach was ok but I wanted to make it a little more fun. I tried several different effects before I decided I liked the way it looked with a colored pencil effect.
Many thanks to guest host Steve Hyde’s for hosting last week’s challenge. Your responses to his Best Ever Photo challenge were fantastic. Thank you to everyone who joined the challenge.
Thank you to our host Ritva for this week’s fun challenge. If you would like to join the challenge please be sure to tag your post with Lens-Artists and include a link back to her post Lens-Artists #410: One Photo Edited.
Be sure to check back on Saturday, August 29 at noon eastern time when Sofia will be hosting the challenge.
You can keep up with all of our challenges by subscribing to the Lens-Artists team members websites: Tina, Patti, Ann-Christine, John, Sofia, Anne, Egidio, Ritva, Beth.
For information on how to join the Lens-Artists challenge please click here.
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We are happy to welcome Steve Hyde as our guest host for this week’s challenge. In honor of World Photography Week he is challenging us to share five pictures that show our love of photography – Our Best Ever Images.
Choosing five images from thousands of photos was not an easy task. I finally narrowed it down to the following images.
This is one of my favorite bird images of all time. There is a tree in our neighborhood next to a small pond where I often see birds hanging out. Several years ago I captured this Wood Stork and Egret perched on one of the limbs of the tree.
I have many Butterfly images that I have posted in the past. I dug through my archives and found this image of a Monarch Butterfly on a pink flower with a Black-Eyed Susans in the background.
Up until a couple of years ago we always had a boat. We spent many happy hours with our children and grandchildren riding through the salt marsh in the saltwater rivers and creeks exploring the uninhabited islands and sandbars. One of of favorite places to go was through the narrow, winding creeks that the locals call the Mosquito Ditch.
I love to take wildlife photos. This pod of Orcas in Alaska is one of my favorites because we almost didn’t see any Oracas on our trip. We had taken two other wildlife cruises in other parts of Alaska and saw many different kinds of wildlife but we still hadn’t seen any Orcas. Our last opportunity to take another wildlife cruise was in Valdez. The scenery and wildlife was spectacular. All of a sudden this pod of Orcas surfaced right beside the boat. I was ready with my camera and was able to capture a few photos before they went on their way. This is one of my all time favorites because it almost didn’t happen.
My final image is my favorite landscape. I chose it because it brings back happy memories of our trip to St. Lucia to celebrate our 30th anniversary many years ago. Seeing this view each day from our villa was magical.
I enjoyed seeing all of your wonderful Over the Top responses to Egidio’s challenge last week. Thank you to everyone who joined the challenge.
Many thanks to guest hose Steve Hyde for this week’s fun challenge. If you would like to join the challenge please be sure to tag your post with Lens-Artists and include a link back to his post Lens-Artists #408: Best Ever Images.
Be sure to check back on Saturday, August 22 at noon eastern time when Ritva will be hosting the challenge.
You can keep up with all of our challenges by subscribing to the Lens-Artists team members websites: Tina, Patti, Ann-Christine, John, Sofia, Anne, Egidio, Ritva, Beth.
For information on how to join the Lens-Artists challenge please click here.
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Egidio asks us to show things we see as Over the Top. He defines Over the Top as “something too extreme, too dramatic, or more than what is expected and needed.” I’m featuring a few Over the Top ships I’ve seen during my travels.
Mega Yacht in Barbados
Enormous container ship traveling through the Panama Canal.
Cruise Ship docked side by side in St. Kitts.
Over the top gigantic cruise ship
Would you go down this over the top water slide on top of a cruise ship?
I enjoyed seeing all of your wonderful Celebrations in response to Patti’s challenge last week. Thank you to everyone who joined the challenge.
Many thanks to Egidio for this week’s challenge. If you would like to join the challenge please be sure to tag your post with Lens-Artists and include a link back to his post Lens-Artists #408: Over the Top.
Be sure to check back on Saturday, August 15 at noon eastern time when guest host Steve Hyde will be hosting the challenge.
You can keep up with all of our challenges by subscribing to the Lens-Artists team members websites: Tina, Patti, Ann-Christine, John, Sofia, Anne, Egidio, Ritva, Beth.
For information on how to join the Lens-Artists challenge please click here.
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Patti challenge is to share celebrations from near and far.
Today I am celebrating my return to blogging after having a total knee replacement two weeks ago! I’m doing well but still have a lot of Physical Therapy in my future.
Fifteen years ago Henry and I celebrated great results from a different kind of health issue. After nine long months of grueling cancer treatments, my doctor told me my cancer was gone! So what did we do to celebrate? Go on a cross country RV Celebration Journey of course!
Surviving cancer made me realize how important it is to live in the moment, enjoy the little things, and celebrate life every day. We met many kind people and at the end of each day we made a toast to the gift of another day.
We toured Vicksburg National Military Park
I fed a Texas Longhorn
We toured Palo Duro Canyon in Texas
We ate steak at the Big Texan in Amarillo
We drove to the top of Sandia Crest with my brother and his wife in Albuquerque
We Wandered around the Garden of the Gods in Colorado
We hiked in the snow in Rocky Mountain National
We wandered around Custer State Park in the Black Hills of South Dakota
We walked across the headwaters of the Mississippi River in Minnesota
I’m still celebrating every day!
I enjoyed all of your responses to Anne’s challenge Summer Daze. Thank you to everyone who joined the challenge.
Many thanks to Patti for this week’s challenge. If you would like to join the challenge please be sure to tag your post with Lens-Artists and include a link back to her post Lens-Artists #407: Celebrations around the World.
Be sure to check back on Saturday, August 8 at noon eastern time when Egidio will be hosting the challenge.
You can keep up with all of our challenges by subscribing to the Lens-Artists team members websites: Tina, Patti, Ann-Christine, John, Sofia, Anne, Egidio, Ritva, Beth.
For information on how to join the Lens-Artists challenge please click here.
Every Day is a Gift
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