Dark pictures for you.

Hi guys! Olive here again! Cossy has returned from a lovely vacation, but I'm giving her a couple more days to recover from sweet bliss.* I know you guys are missing her, mainly because I'm boring, but I think you can survive a couple more random posts. Today is short, but I have a couple images for you guys.

Now, before you guys start wondering, no that is not the sun set (or sun rise for that matter). In fact this was taken right before it stormed, and what you don't see is the top of a roof. I darkened this image, just for the purpose of showing off the tiny piece of sunlight that was left before the sky went dark.

This was taken in the full sun on an afternoon about 2pm. I darkened this as well, to showcase how BRIGHT the sky is, and how the trees indeed have a shadow. 

This was also darkened, and taken shortly after a summer rain. It was darkened VERY little, and only done so to bring out the color a little more, and make the rain drops a little more obvious.

I hope you guys enjoy these images! I sure enjoyed taking them, as always :)

Tune in this week for some special posts! 

~Olive

P.S. ~ thank you for the comment, I love hearing from you :)

*Cossy was feeling a little sick on the trip home, so she'll join us tomorrow or Monday with a special post.

I'm a bit early, but who cares?

Hello! Today I am going to show you what I call, the Raindrop Effect. The image below is natural. As you can see there are raindrops on it! I love, love this Effect! You see besides wanting to start my life off with photography, I want to capture rain in a way that will blow minds. But I don't know how. So in till I can find a way to capture rain in the way I want it to, I do what I call the Raindrop Effect. It captures rain, and something beautiful as well!

This next image was edited, and all I really did was darken the leaves and bring out the light in the photo, and...I love it. It is one of my favorites!

You can do the Effect on more than just leaves! Roses, other flowers, pretty much anything! So my tip/saying for the day, is: When you look outside and see thats its raining don't sigh and wish for the sun to come out, simply grab your camera and in between the rain and moments of non-rain take photos! The Effect is simply beautiful and I love it so much! That is why I'm sharing it with you guys! Don't look down on rain, look up to rain! Rain can be more than just a muddy, sad, dark day. It can be happy and full of light too! All you have to do is get that jewel out of the dirt! By simply taking a photo.