With this photo my assignment was to add a photo filter to the image, but to only a selected portion of the image. At first, I was at a loss for what to select to make my photo filter. Then I came across this photo I took and decided that it would be kinda fun to select the pond and make an ocean ripple effect across the water surface, since there wasn't much activity going on in the water when the photo was taken.

This is the result of my playing around with adobe illustrator and utilizing the use of text in an image. The paragraph is an excerpt from a german poem called Elfenlied by Eduard Morike which translates to:

So the elf rubs his eyes,
comes out of his snail-shell house,
and is like a drunken man,
his nap was not finished;
and he hobbles down, tip tap,
through the hazel wood into the valley,
slips right up to the wall...

When looked over the pictures I took and saw this one, it reminded me of something out of a fantasy novel and so I chose this excerpt of text because I felt it embodied the fantasy feel I was going for in this photo. I also designed the text to follow down the path to give the image the icing on the cake that it needed.

This image belongs to my set of photos relating to the new way of seeing assignment that I've been doing. For this photo, I decided to experiment with the different ways I could blend different photos together. With this photo I chose a stock photo from the computer as a backdrop, and then added a round oriental lamp I selected from a different photo to take the place of where the sun would usually be. To add some contrast, I increased the vibrance of the yellow lamp so that it would compliment the blue mountain backdrop nicely.