Category: Photo Challenges

Entries into blogging community photo challenges and contests.

Whatsoever is Lovely 2022-week 3

Header for the Whatsoever is Lovely blog challenge

We had a break in the gray weather and a couple of lovely sunsets this week.

Lovely winter sunset over Puget Sound.
Winter sunset

For the Whatsoever is Lovely blog challenge.

I used Raw Therapee for basic edits and raw conversion, Topaz Studio 2 to apply a painterly effect, and the GIMP to resize and add the watermark. I used the worflow described in: Photo processing workflow: preparing photos to use on the web using open-source software.

Affiliate link for Topaz Labs software.

Winter light

Winter light on a hen and chicks plant.

As the year winds down, our area is often rather gloomy. Some people call it “the big dark”, which sounds more dramatic than it is. I think of it as “winter light”. When the weak winter sun manages to drift through the clouds the low angle of the winter sunlight creates beauty in the mundane. Yesterday was such a day. Alas, today it is raining again and will likely be a dark one, but…photograph ye roses while ye may…

For Cee’s Flower of the Day and Len’s Artists Photo Challenge: You choose.

How does the winter light strike you?

Photos captured with a Sony RX10iv camera and processed using open-source software: Raw Therapee and the GIMP. If you are interested in trying these out check out this post: https://www.thesquirrelchase.com/2020/08/30/photo-processing-workflow-open-source/.