Wait Two Seconds – The Weather Will Change. Welcome to Virginia, Y’all.

Whoa – those clouds look scary. Better head back to the house…

 

Wait. What?

I promise that I took those photos within seconds of each other- with the same camera settings.  My belly is getting larger so it takes longer to do a 180 these days, but not THAT long.

Ominous looking towards the road… clear and bright towards my house. Weird.

 

I had a lot of fun outside yesterday afternoon. I had more fun when the children came home and started racing their go-cart through mud puddles, but taking photos of the sky, the clouds, the sun streaming through the trees… that was pretty fun too. A quieter kind of fun.

 

Here’s the view from our lane. I like how the trees make everything dark but you can see that beautiful blue sky back there. I really bumped up the saturation on this one… maybe too much but sometimes I like different effects. And it doesn’t hurt to try, right?

 

I used my (free!) editing program, Photoscape and applied the film effect Portra to this shot of the outhouse (I used Photoscape on all of these – Photoshop is not CottonWife-friendly).

You know, I’ve never been brave enough to open that door – and I’m the nosiest person in the world. I’m also a coward. This really inhibits my nosiness sometimes. I hate that.

 

This one is unedited. I don’t really think it needs anything else, do you? The barn is dark but that’s because those large clouds were blocking the sun – I could have brightened this photo, I suppose but it wouldn’t be natural.

 

I only added some vignetting to this one. And maybe some saturation – I can’t remember. I just sort of click around sometimes and can’t remember what I’ve done. That’s helpful editing advice isn’t it… “Oh, just click around and see what you get… never mind you’ll never be able to duplicate it!”. I don’t think anyone would pay for that advice.