Something a little different this month. I hadn't taken all that many photos, outside of the community association craft sale event. Even the ones I did take seemed really meh.
I mentioned I'd taken a Lightroom course, and I've been busy going back through my images. I really enjoyed doing that, the images taking me back to the place and time. I was looking for images with good bones, where I could make an appreciable difference now, applying fresh eyes and new editing skills. The two astro images were image of the month with the original edit, and are much better now. At least I think so.
And yeah, I found a bunch of images that I wince at how I edited them. The less said there the better.
2nd Runner Up
One the road home from Milford Sound the bus stopped at the end of the Homer Tunnel. The change to the image is removing some foreground distractions, tweaking how the rocks look, and bringing up some of the sky drama. This is a huge image, nearly 7 feet wide and about 1.5 feet high. The panorama covers nearly 1/4 of the horizon so it's hard to see that those mountains are really looming over the parking lot.
1st Runner Up
My camera found the aurora australis during our 2020 trip to New Zealand. This is from the south end of the south island, looking over Corlac Bay. The bright light off to the left is Invercargill. The edit brings up the reflections in the water and running the denoise function increased the clarity of the sky.
Image of the Month.
The galaxy over Forget-me-not pond. The edit brings up the reflections and the light on the mountains.
