Natural Florida

A mother manatee and her calf

Aquatic birds (I never know if they are cormorants or anhingas)

Gator!

Aquatic bird...Anhinga I think.

View looking down toward the spring

I just uploaded some nature pics

Check out the link below...it goes to a photo album of some of my nature photography.

http://snapshotsofgrace.jalbum.net/nature/

More playing with textures

I'm loving this fun glass mosiac texture. It matches the youthfulness of the girls :-)

Playing around

The original photo...a girl from church who was totally engrossed with her kitty, much to her mother's (the children's worship leader) chagrin. I'm a firm believer in taking a good photo from the get-go and not relying on editing to "fix" things. But sometimes circumstances are beyond your control-like the kids in the background.

In this one, I cropped the picture a bit and used the "clone" brush to make the two kids in the background "disappear".

Here I put a faint "frame" around her to draw attention to her face...but I can't figure out how to adjust the size of the frame, so it is actually a little tighter around her face than I wanted.

And here I changed the color to Sepia and added an old fashioned picture border.

I did all this because it is a good way for me to practice, and I always tell people that I can change things about the picture, but I'm not sure that they understand the scope of things that can be done. This just scratches the surface!

A dog and his boy...