New Hope, Pennsylvania

My newest blog obsession is the Pioneer Woman. She's a blogger/self-taught photographer, and I love reading her posts and looking at her pictures. In one of her posts, she played with the different aspects of Photoshop to show all the things you can do to a single shot. I absorbed as much of post as I could.

Since I'm still discovering the aspects of the photo editing program I found on my computer yesterday (which I figured out is just Microsoft Picture Manager), I decided to also post a few versions of the same shot, to show the different things that I'm able to do. I'm sure that when I look back on this in a few years, and I've become a master Photoshopper, I will laugh at how excited I am about my amateur efforts at this limited program I'm working with.

Over the holidays, I visited my family in New Jersey. We went to New Hope, Pennsylvania for a day trip, and I got a cool shot of the theater in town. I assume it used to be some sort of mill before it was converted into a theater.


Here is the original shot:





And now here it is in a sepia tone. I love the way the clouds look, almost surreal:





And finally, black and white. Cold and stark, but interesting nonetheless: