356 - Balinese Doors

Day 356. One of the lovely aspects of wandering around Bali is seeing all the beautiful doors that lead off the main streets: some highly ornate and others very simple. Some lead to family home complexes, some to temple areas, and others, who knows? But they look delightful and are a real part of the cultural landscape there. These are six doors that caught my eye, shot with my Nikon D7000, tweaked and treated in Adobe Lightroom and arranged with Diptic for Mac.

353 - Polarr Opposites

Day 353. I discovered an amazing web tool for working with images called Polarr. It's a pretty serious online image editor that offers a credible cloud-based alternative to Lightroom or Aperture. It even works with RAW files, and all just in a browser which is pretty amazing. It is mainly used for colour corrections and image fine tuning, not actual image creation, but the range and depth of the tools it offers is pretty stunning, and very Lightroom-ish.

Here's an image that I sort of went overboard on, but it's just fun to play with all the sliders.

272 - Glenelg Sunset

 Day 272. For our last night in Adelaide, Linda and I visited the seaside suburb of Glenelg. I took the camera and got a few snaps as the sun went down. I thought this shot turned out pretty good. It was taken in RAW format and got a few small tweaks in Adobe Lightroom, but this is more or less how it came out of the camera.

257 - Whale of a Time

Day 257. Today's daily create is a couple of photos I took when Linda and I went whale watching today about 15 nautical miles off the Sydney coastline. We managed to find this huge humpback playing in the waters on her way back to Antarctica, and although she was playing hard to get she did come up to the surface a couple of times and I managed to snap these photos. Shot on a Nikon D7000, post processing in Adobe Lightroom.

Beautiful creatures...

184 - Gullible

Day 184. Over the weekend I moved my entire photo collection from Apple's Aperture to Adobe Lightroom, and in the process I've been working through a Lightroom course on www.lynda.com. I'm very pleased with the move... I really like Lightroom, and the Lynda course has been an excellent way to get to grips with some of Lightroom's more advanced features. This was one of the images I came up with as I played around in it and although I took this photo of seagulls quite a while ago, it was nice to revisit it by using the HSL filters to strip the saturation out of all the colours except orange.