Sunday Stills ~ The Letter C

Sunday Stills is a place to hone your photography skills. Each week Ed issues a new “Challenge” that gives us the opportunity to pick up what ever kind of camera we own and try to meet the challenge. This week's challenge is "The Letter C".

Coincidentally, I just got a fabulous shot yesterday, using just my little Canon point & shoot, of our old Cottonwood tree out in the pasture. It has lost most of it's leaves and gave sort of an eery appearance. The picture itself wasn't too impressive, but it was one that begged to be Photoshopped. Since I missed last week's challenge, I thought I would integrate the two.

This is the shot straight out of the camera.

Here I brought out the color of the sky.

This one is my favorite. Reminds me of something etched on copper. It is interesting how this particular action pulled out the different colors in the sky which you would not have seen in the previous two pictures.

And here I applied a texture of sorts to the picture.

While downloading pictures from this camera, I came upon this picture of one of our cats, Mickey. Quite striking, isn't he? (Yes, he is missing an eye - he was a stray & it was missing when he showed up here). However, I can't take credit for this picture. I believe it must have been taken by my older son, McCain. I liked this shot & it started with a c. Cat. So I thought I would share it, as well.

Thanks, Ed, for this new challenge. Looking forward to seeing everyone else's pictures!