{dead jellyfish - you’re welcome!}

{we saw dolphins playing}

{this would have been a lot cooler if both the pelican AND the dolphin were in focus}

{turns out they weren’t playing, they were “playing”}

{one shy hermit crab}

{many shy hermit crabs}

{not so shy}

{cute baby crab}

{curious about this cute baby crab}

{about 3 seconds before she dropped and ran}

BONUS:

{nature, but not}

Filed under Nature, Uncategorized on May 13 | 7 comments

Today I had fun with Pioneer Woman’s Blue Branch tutorial.

Before (SOOC):

After:

Filed under Nature on April 27 | 1 comment

Before: The Slug

After: The Caterpillar

The story: Addy is very curious about insects and critters. We found this little slug which she found most disgusting. She was not happy with the slug. But when we found this caterpillar she was quite excited. They became fast friends.

* you, too, can join in Stacy’s awesome Theme Thursdays each week. I chose to focus on before & after as it relates to mood. Here’s my Before & After as it relates to post-processing:

SOOC:

Post-processed:

The original was so blown out that I just couldn’t do much with it without taking the time and effort to open up photoshop (whew! I’m panting already from the exhaustion of it all! ha). So I played around with softness, a white matte and desaturated it to about 25%, all through Picnik. My goal was to try to convey the tender moment a little better. I posed it to my blog and was really shocked at the positive response it got since I liked it for about 5 seconds before I decided I didn’t. haha.

Filed under Addison, Black & Whites, Nature, Teegan on April 24 | 10 comments