Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday: Devil’s Courthouse

February 26, 2014 /

As you know, I have pulled photos from my archives. All month, I have shared with you one foggy day on the Blue Ridge Parkway. In last week’s post, here, the image is near Devil’s Courthouse.

That got me to thinking, do I have any foggy pictures of Devil’s Courthouse? After searching through all of my old digital photos I came up empty-handed. Well….I’m not totally without. I did find this picture taken in 2010….

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captured with my small point n’ shoot Canon DS8800 camera

There is a relatively easy trail to hike the short distance to the top of the cliffs at Devil’s Courthouse. We did this once when the children were young and I survived. Often times, when we’re in the area we can see rock climbers on the side of the mountain from where I took this photo. Rock climbing isn’t permitted, but people do it anyway.

In trying to keep with my series of dramatic foggy shots, I applied the gray-scale effect to my photo.

I got to thinking, I knew I had a more recent picture of Devil’s Courthouse and I was right. In fact, I used my big girl camera shortly after I bought her in 2012. Here it is…

Nikon D7000 click to enlarge image

Fotor is experiencing a mental breakdown of some sorts, so I could not apply my copyright to the above image, so I fell back on my FotoFlexer to come to my rescue. With Fotor not cooperating, I began exploring other “free” photo editing programs in Apple’s app store. I found two that I instantly shined.

The first one is a photo effects application with limited editing ability called PicLight but I liked what it offers enough to hang on to it. Here’s an example.

This is the same image, as above. This the Montage selection 31 effect. In PicLight you can’t add text, so I had to use FotoFlexer to insert my copyright info. Otherwise, I think it’s a cool program.

Prior to using FotoFlexer in the above photo, I used Photo LE, pictured below. I really like the program a lot. It has more flexibility with photo adjustments, text, & special effects options. The down side to this program is to save the image in a format that can be used by most programs you have to export it from the app format to jpg, png, etc, which results in file size reduction, as you can here…

I would be absolutely nuts about this photo-editing program if it weren’t for one flaw, you have to upgrade to the paid version ($19.99) to unlock the software’s ability to maintain image resolution. I am not willing to dish out the money to see if it works yet. Can anyone confirm this? One really cool thing about Photo LE is it offers the option to use an image as part of your copyright info like I did in the right bottom corner.

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