This is my Week 2 of the One Four Challenge – hosted by Robyn G of the blog, “Captivate Me.”
For my edits today, I used the photo editor, iColorama, and added blue coloring to the water.
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PJ, you did a great job with the blue. It looks natural and it greened up other areas. It turned out REALLY great!!
Thank you Terri! I appreciate that. 🙂
The blue is gorgeous and I love the way the bridge is framed with the gold leaves and branches. Beautiful!
Thank you Kim! I am new in photography so I really appreciate your input!
Loved the week 2 result 🙂 But the image is an awesome one, every click is I see from you for these 4 week challenge is terrific 😀
Thank you Ady! I have so much learning to do. I really need to get out and take some more photos. Next week it’s suppose to be in the 60’s so hopefully I can go get some good ones. 🙂
Good luck on that 😀
Thank you!
I love the blue, it makes the water stand out and shine 🙂
Thank you!
I love the more aqua tone in this edit. A lovely image.
Thank you. I have no idea what I will be able to do with it next week. ^O-O^
It’s a “challenge” I know!! 😀
Yup we have mountain lakes and rivers that has the water that EXACT shade of blue, great job PJ 🙂
Wonderful! They must be beautiful!
http://www.sisson.co.nz/blog/today-s-beautiful-photo-of-new-zealand-aoraki/mt-cook-and-lake-pukaki
Absolutely gorgeous!! Thank you for sending me this photo.
You must live in a very beautiful place.
I do a lot of work with Photoshop and onOne software and you did an amazing job with this! The color is very natural. It is a wonderful photo.
Thank you Kirsten! I am so glad to hear that. I am running out of photos to use for this challenge. I really need to get out and take more photos.
I’m thinking of joining in on this challenge. Is it okay to join in now for February or do I need to wait for March?
I think you can join now, you will be a week behind, or you can submit two different photo edits. (One for the first week and the second for the second week). Or just do the 3 weeks for this month. I think it is up to you.
All the images are beautiful..but I loved week 2 the best…you really did an excelling job with thw ‘blue’ color… 🙂
Thank you Sweety! (I love your name).
😀 thanks
I loved the blue in the pictures!!! I struggle with my pictures fading out the blue in the sky. I really loved this.
You must live in a place that has beautiful blue skies!!
Sometimes……sometimes they are pretty pale, especially during the winter.
Nice edit. I wish we had rivers that colour… most of ours are a muddy brown!
Ours too. My “blue” river is an edit.
Not only does it make the water look nice and blue, but all the other colours surrounding the river are a lot clearer, very nice, Joy 😉
Thank you Cat! Hope things are going well for you. 🙂
not bad, Joy, brain’s a little slow. I have been thinking of you. Are you okay?
Yes, I am doing well. Just ready for warm weather! Hope to get out this week and take some more photos because it is suppose to be in the mid 60’s. For some reason, sometime in February spring will come visit us for a week or two and then whammy us with another snow storm. In the meantime, I will take that week or two because it is better than nothing. 🙂
We have been really lucky for winter weather in London, although I probably speak to soon. If it’s 60’s next week you can go outdoors to take some more lovely pics. Pleased you’re well
I went to the river yesterday and took some photos of the geese there. I think I might go back again today and take some corn to feed them. It was nice to get out of the house and the weather was so pleasant!
It was lovely here yesterday too, but cold and overcast today. Do you take Bria out with you?
Yes I do. I have a hold of her leash while I am trying to take photos so it makes it clumsy for me especially if she is pulling on the leash. I threaten her and tell her I’m not bringing her again if she doesn’t stop pulling the leash, but I am too wishy washy to follow up. Haha!
ah she’s so sweet… but naughty for pulling mummy!!
Bria likes to “read.” I say dogs are reading when they are busy smelling the smell of other dogs. Of course, since the river park is a park, there are a LOT of other dog smells!
I call this, dogs reading P-Mails!!! 😛
Hahaha! That was VERY clever! You are right! Pee Mails!!
This edit is very ‘sunny’ – makes me long for summer as I look out my window and see nothing but dreary cold rain…
I understand. I have felt “locked in” with winter too. Fortunately, this week is suppose to be extra nice. I’m hoping to go take more photos.
Yes, I hear you about the photos – I have gone out but there’s hardly anything I want to take a picture of yet…
I know! I’m afraid that’s what I will find… nothing!
I just google ‘photos on a dreary day’ and got lots of inspiration!
That’s a great idea! I just went to the river and took pictures of the geese. I haven’t check them yet but hopefully I have a few good ones.
I really like the change in the colour of the water. It has brought the colour palette together.
Thank you Ben! I hope I can figure out what to do for next week. Do you have an ideas? I’m limited with iOs8 (iPad) editors.
I am on android with my mobile devices, but there is an editor called pixlr-o-matic where you can click a random button to get a quick random mixture of three filter, colour light and border. It can be quite fun and you can keep clicking random till something works.
Ok thanks! I will look into that one.
I like the enhanced blue in this. It also makes me feel like this image is taking me back to the 60-70s. 🙂
Really? Is it because of the colors in the picture or just the picture?
For me it is because of the color, something I verified for myself by looking at the original and first edit. But I also think it’s the color in addition to the view and overall sort of romantic feel of it. Of course I don’t say this in a bad light at all! 😀
Thank you for explaining. I was trying to figure out if the photo had an “old” look to it.
🙂
PJ this is so lovely. The addition of the blue really makes the scene pop now. Its a beautiful view!
Thank you Robyn.
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Love that blue! There are many glacial silty rivers in Alaska where this scene plays out. It is really beautiful. The light in this image is special too! Great job.
Thank you so much Carrie! My daughter and her husband and children lived in Palmer, Alaska for 15 years. They moved to Phoenix now. Wondered if you live anywhere close to Palmer?
Oh I visited Palmer a couple of times. I don’t live in Alaska anymore, wish I did most days although that is fading since moving to Northern California. I lived in Fairbanks, AK for 6 years with my husband, he was going through graduate school. We explored and adventured a lot and saw as much of the state as we could. It is quite a place.
We now live in Arcata, CA near the coast and the redwoods, it is beautiful and raw in its own right, I am happy here, haven’t been able to say that in almost 9 yrs. So, that is GREAT!
I’m glad you are somewhere where you are happier. I would be unhappy in Alaska because of the cold weather and winter darkness. I would hate that.
Yes, it is not for everyone. I totally get that. With darkness brings an opportunity to go within and to form strong bonds with friends. People are very real there and seeing the sunlight change so dramatically from week to week (7 min each day lost or gained) it felt very alive and I embraced that.
I didn’t know how much I appreciate it until I left, we moved to Los Angeles, huge change. Happy I found a middle ground. Arcata is rural, real, raw and beautiful without the temperature extremes and isolation. Good fit for us 🙂
I would think it would be an extreme change for the better. Sunny and warm and beautiful redwoods!
Amazing how such a small change can influence the entire image. Lovely version!
Thank you so much! I appreciate and value your opinion. 🙂
Love that clean, blue water!
Thank you!