Quote of the day: “Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.” – Khalil Gibran
Word of the day: Beauty (I am grateful for beauty everywhere I look!)
Gooseberry River meets Lake Superior
Photographer sharing beauty, grace & joy in photographs and blog posts. I live in the Twin Cites in Minnesota, the land of lakes, trees, and wonderful nature.
Here is my seventh photo/essay in my current photography/writing project. It’s called Getting Older I went to my thesaurus this morning to look for other words for aging. Many of the words I found were Read more…
Yesterday I took a hike at Big Willow Park in Minnetonka. With little patches of the previous day’s snow still clinging to the grass and a biting cold wind I felt as if I was Read more…
Yesterday was a gray day with occasional snowfall adding a white mist to the air. In the afternoon I took a hike at French Regional Park hoping to see migrating trumpeter swans on the lake. Read more…
2 Comments
danitacahill · November 22, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Beautiful and dreamy. Do you mind sharing your post processing with this shot?
lamorm1 · November 22, 2011 at 7:11 pm
Thanks. No, I don’t mind sharing my post-processing. I didn’t do a lot of processing. The light was so perfect. I used the history brush in photoshop and curves adjustment to brush on some lightening in the lower foreground and I bumped up the saturation slightly on the entire photo. Then I used the history brush with curves adjustment to both desaturate and lighten the pine trees in the middle left of the photo because they were a little too yellow and bright.