journey

i just realized that it has now been a year since Kay, my cousin, got me to start an account on flickr.... thanks, Kay! ... and it has been a fun and most interesting journey for me. this image is the first, or one of the first, images that i posted ... it was taken the day after Thanksgiving, up in one of our favorite places, gualala.

 

since then, because of all your incredible photostreams, i have been introduced to so many new things, and have found that i now look at the world in a different way.

 

when i first started posting images, about all the processing i did was cropping and some minor brightness and contrast adjustments .... and then i started playing in PSE 5 and stumbled across the "orton effect" here on flickr .... and, i started playing around with it ...

 

since then i've tried different processing including textures, layering, etc, and even got talked into taking some flower pictures ... ;-) ... one of the most fun things was attending "the great alcatraz flickrwalk" with some flickrfriends and getting to know them better while we wandered around "the rock" getting some great images.

 

because of flickr, and more importantly, because of all the help and encouragement from flickrfriends, and your incredible images, i look at the world differently, and my newer images reflect that ... this has been a fun and informative journey.

 

thank you flickrfriends!

 

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