Cantigny Winter Wonderland Photography

As I write this I reflect on yesterday, Friday, February 24, 2012. What a day it was here in the Chicago Suburbs, specifically at Cantigny Park and Gardens in Wheaton, IL. The ground and trees were painted by a magnificent layer of snow that was a dream for me. I kept hoping for that perfect snowfall to go out and capture photos but it just had not happened until yesterday.

Besides the snowfall, this is my second photo project where I am shooting in RAW format. I should have been doing this for quite a while but we do learn from our mistakes and move on. I know I will be shooting in RAW all of the time going forward.

My camera for this trip is a Pentax K-7 with a standard 18-55 zoom lens ISO 100. I was ready for the day.

The images posted below went through a couple, few rounds of edits. Since I don’t have Adobe Lightroom (yet) I used Photoshop Elements and tweaked them. Each image will be followed by edits using Smart Photo Editor using multiple filters. I like the effects created so far. I feel I could have made them even more interesting if I spent more time on them, but I just don’t have that kind of time today. So let’s get started with the image presentations.

It was great to get out and take these scenic snow photos and just as much fun editing them. I must confess, I was a little disappointed with the lack of snowfall here in Chicago this season. I'll tell you this though, yesterday made up for it.

Enjoy Life, Take Pictures!

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Bedroom Window Snow

To be honest, there has not been a very good snow season this year for me and photography. I have taken some snow scene photos but it has not really been what I was looking for. With that in mind I decided to go through some of my older snow photos to see what I had done before. The image below was taken on 2/6/2008 according to the image properties.

It seems I set up this shot looking out the bedroom window. Looking at this image today, I like it. This is the type of image I was hoping to get this year so I could use my DSLR to take a pic. Since I did not have that opportunity this year I decided to play with this image with Smart Photo Editor. Below are the results.

So even though I did not get to use my DSLR as much as I wanted to for snow scenes this year, I was able to have some fun editing this and sharing these with you.

Enjoy Life, Take Pictures!

BTW ... On Twitter I am @TMSphotos ... I am always willing to connect with photographers. You are also welcome to follow my Blog here. I try to share knowledge, information and experience of my photography.

My Facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/TMSphotographyChicago

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A Different Kind of Snow Photo - Modified

A couple of weeks ago I took the following photo

On some of my other social networking sites I got some interesting comments about it. Then I thought about what I could do to make this image more interesting. After giving this some more thought, I tinkered with it in a few of my photo editing software programs. The following is what I created ...

I posted this image for my friends to enjoy, here I post it for you to enjoy.


Enjoy Life, Take Pictures!

BTW ... On Twitter I am @TMSphotos ... I am always willing to connect with photographers. You are also welcome to follow my Blog here. I try to share knowledge, information and experience of my photography.

My Facebook page is http://www.facebook.com/TMSphotographyChicago

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