Texture Tuesday: Free and Easy--Adirondacks in the Fall

Textured image of dawn at South Bay, Raquette Lake

Iconic Adirondack scenery: white Adirondack chairs in front of Blue Mountain Lake

I was lucky enough to have an opportunity to go to one of my favorite places in my favorite season--the Adirondacks in the Fall. I went specifically for the photo opportunities with a friend of mine (and fellow shutterbug) who lives in a region of the country where there is not much of a fall. I do live where there is a change of seasons and a pretty nice fall (in Indiana), but the difference is there are not as many lakes (at least not right around every bend as there is in the Adirondacks) and, also, there are no mountains in Indiana.

I am still getting through all my shots from the long weekend. I took a great deal more than I do when I am on a 'regular' vacation with my family. 

Above are two shots that I decided to add Kim's textures to. 

Below are a few more shots that I have edited, but decided to forgo the textures.

It is a lovely time of year in a lovely part of the country. I hope to make this is a yearly tradition!

Morning light over the South Bay of Raquette Lake

Grasses and mist in the morning, Otter Bay, Raquette Lake, NY

Last rays of sun beyond the horizon, the summit of Rocky Mountain near Inlet, NY

Mist rests on bright red autumn foliage, South Bay, Raquette Lake.

Secret Falls aka Death Falls, Raquette Lake, NY

Brilliant autumn leaves on the forest floor, Raquette Lake, NY

Red leaf on rocks in Moose River, Old Forge, NY

Moose River, Old Forge, NY

Black and white of ferns in the forest near Old Forge, NY

Old stump and ferns in the forest near Old Forge, NY

Shutter sisters

Dim morning sun trying to break through the heavy fog, Raquette Lake NY

Buttermilk Falls, on the Raquette River near Long Lake,  NY

Texture Tuesday: Free and Easy

For Texture Tuesday this week, I have two photos--one each of two of my favorite and most common subjects.

Oat grass. I wonder how many photos I have taken of this plant?

 And dandelions, which I find especially lovely when they are covered in morning dew.

Texture Tuesday: August End

An image made with Kim's 'appreciate' texture from her August End duo of textures. Our August end in Indiana has brought the hottest weather we've had this summer. It was not a bad summer overall, but still, I look forward to winter.

Texture Tuesday

 For Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday, a couple of pictures of black-eyed susans:

Beyond Beyond Day 28

Once again, it has been a long time since I've done any exercises in Kim Klassen's Beyond Beyond class. Day 28 was about tweaking textures to our liking in Camera Raw. I appreciated this exercise because I did not know before that you could do this. The one problem is knowing this trick might lead to way too many textures in my files!

Often I do want to tweak a texture, but I usually end up doing that by clipping other adjustment layers (such as black and white or levels) onto the texture while I am editing the photo that I am applying the texture to. To do this tweaking in Camera Raw is much more convenient and there are many more options.

I used Kim's Frosted texture (upper left) and created three additional versions. There is something different about my copy of Photoshop and Kim's so I could not figure out how to use the crop tool to expand the canvas and add some spacing between the textures, but I decided that was not that important, so I left it alone.

Below is an image I layered with a couple of the textures that were newly created from Kim's original texture. 

Texture Tuesday.. Free and Easy

For Kim's Texture Tuesday. This was edited with Lightroom, Photoshop and Radlab. I used one layer of Kim's texture 'jamal' at soft light, 79% opacity.

Texture Tuesday on Friday

I have not be posting on my blog for a while again. Of course it is not as if I have to, but because Kim's Texture Tuesday link-ups are open until Saturdays now and because summer texture tuesdays are all 'free and easy', I am doing a quick post. Happy Friday!

The above image was texture with a couple of layers of Kim's Aulneau texture from her July collection.