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January Hibiscus

not a lot of pretty and inspiring organic matter for me to shoot right now . . . 

even in Florida, it is pretty brown!  

However, there was this lonely little hibiscus blooming on our front porch, 

so I captured it : )

sooc

through photoshop and layered with textures!

enjoy!

wonder

I do not have much to say . . . just wanted to bring the wonder of spring into a winter afternoon

enjoy!

i love this face!

fall in florida . . .

 . . . the weather is getting cooler here (it's down to the 70s!) . . . 

. . . the days are getting shorter . . . 

. . . the acorns are falling from the trees . . . 

ahhhhh, fall!

. . . b/w conversion

i made my first action!  it has taken me so long to get a b/w that looks the way I would like it to look, with dark chocolate on the black and a creamy vanilla on the white, that I played around a little and made my own action . . . 

sooc:

opened in RAW and made a few adjustments:

ran one of my favorite actions of all time (Catherine Halsey's Fog Lift and Edge Burn):

used the ruler tool to draw a line across the sofa arm and rotated it with an arbitrary rotation:

cropped:

sharpened her eyes:

ran my actions, here are a few examples:

i'd love to hear what you think!  and, i'm happy to send you the action {for photoshop} as a gift, as long as you show the results on your blog with a link back to mine showing where you got it.  just leave a comment, which sends me a message and i'll get it emailed to you.  

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ENJOY!  

. . . collecting shells