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Truly a monstrous edit. I started with a not very good photo I took and had previously edited in 2005 and rand it through Topaz Gigapixel AI, upscaling it 6x. Then I loaded it into Luminar 4, where I made dozens of tweaks and applied a lookup table. Next I used Topaz DeNoise AI to clean the image up and remove some of the posterizing effects brought on by Luminar. Lastly I dragged into Photoshop, used QuickMask to select the sky and denoised and otherwise cleaned it up (it needed a lot of work.) Then I straightened out the horizon and adjusted the levels. This was a project I worked on and off again for a week. Was it worth it? Probably not. I find the end result kind of amusing.
In my other spare time (!), I occasionally play euphonium for the Old Silkstone Brass Band, founded in 1861 no less, and today we played in an entertainment contest in Nottinghamshire. 'Entertainment' in the world of brass banding seems to consist mainly of not being where you're supposed to be on stage, standing up and sitting down in time with the music, blowing, banging or rattling odd percussion instruments in an 'amusing' way, and not playing all the right notes in all the right places (that last bit isn't quite deliberate).
There were seven bands in the competition, we were drawn to play seventh and you'll never guess where we came...
ODC: Seven
Taken in 2014.
Two girls watched with amusement as this guy went through a series of static stretching poses on a dock beside Boston's Charles River Esplanade.
...a tiny, tasty treat!
An amuse-bouche [aˌmyzˈbuʃ] is a single, bite-sized hors d’œuvre. The term is French, literally translated as "mouth amuser".
Walking through the old streets of Kanazawa in Japan, I met this fashionably dressed lady and asked if I could take her portrait. She was amused and I captured this moment before she took up a more formal pose. I love the spontaneity.