My Monday posts will now focus on happiness. The goal is to start each week on a positive note.
I ’ve recently been seeing lots of clever memes from a Facebook page called “Hippie World”.
The memes are ai generated, so aren’t subject to copyright (I figured as much, but checked anyways to be sure).
Because, when I was a teenager, I was a wannabe hippie, because I’ve been an avid walker for many years, and because many of the songs referenced are on my walking playlists, this one spoke to me:
On yesterday morning’s power walk, there wasn’t a breath of wind, which resulted in stunning mirror reflections on the river.
Because I didn’t want to slow my pace, I didn’t take the time to adjust the exposure on my iPhone camera before I took the shot.
The result was a slightly more washed out photo than what I had hoped for.
Our province’s motto is “Land of Living Skies”, so my goal in many of the landscape images I capture here at home is to honour that motto.
In addition to not taking the time to adjust the exposure, I didn’t wait until there were no vehicles passing by. I don’t mind vehicles in a landscape photo that showcases reflections on water, but only if the vehicles themselves are also in the reflection.
A bit of post processing brought the photo to how I envisioned the scene. I first removed the cars using the eraser in my phone’s native photos app. I then took the photo into the Lightroom mobile app for minor adjustments to exposure and colours. I added a wee bit of vignette at the end to draw more light to the main subject. Within less than five minutes of simple editing, I was able to achieve what was in my mind’s eye for this scene from yesterday morning (feature photo).
In some instances, I edit out telephone and power lines. This time, the lines were also a detail in the perfect reflection so I left them in.
Here’s the original.
Radically Retired 