Picture 325

So.....how's it goin?
I'm doing wonderful!
I have had a good week.
I play games, hung out with family, wasted my life at work, and so much more!
I did resurrect an old game.

That's Rollercoaster Tycoon 3.
I played it last year.
I had an AWESOME park.
However....one day I made a huge mistake.
I saved over my park.
I lost everything.
Then we moved and we lost the game disc in the boxes.
I was so sad.
I missed my coasters.
So, I spent an extra $20 and got it on Steam.
Now I can download it anywhere and not need a disc!
The picture above is my new park.
In the old one...I cheated....
I started off in sandbox mode with unlimited money.
Then WAYYY down the road, I turned money on.
So, I had like 22 coasters and a lot of other things already there.
But...not this time.
I did cheat a little.
I got myself started with a few little rides and the food court.
It's really hard to just start complete from scratch.
And what I had already built wasn't good enough when I turned money on.
I started losing money fast!
However, with a little financial readjusting, I was in the green.
It slow made money and I slow expanded.
Now, it's doing wonderful!
As you can see in the picture.
OK! Enough talking about games.
I just love my rollercoasters. :-P
On to the picture!
This was during our walks that my Aunt and I did through some pretty nature trails.
The series also contains Pictures 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 317, 318,319, 320, 321, and 322, 323, and 324.
The picture for this week was interesting.
When I got to it....I didn't know what to do.
After last week's fail, I wasn't too confident.
People did like last week's photo though.
I'm just too picky.
Anyways, I looked at it for a while.
I thought of the idea of dark dark shadows.
Almost to the point of silhouettes.
I played around and got this...

That was good enough by itself.
But I thought, there's a lot of space at the bottom.
It's just a bunch of leaves.
So, I cropped it.
But I didn't like how wide it was.
And thus...I decided to mirror it.

Mirroring is when I take a half of an image of and flip it, then line it back up with the other half.

That was a rough explanation....

You can see what I mean in the picture below...

Ok, things are getting better!

But there was one more thing that I did.

In my playing around, I rotated the image.

And fell in love.

It's amazing how a picture changes with just a simple rotation.

And that's how it got to the point of where it's at.

Many different experiments and changes.

LET'S COMPARE!

Hover your mouse (the computer one :-P) over the original picture to see the after editing one.
If you're on a touchscreen device, just tap on the picture. You may have to tap more than once.

AMAZING!!
I just love all the different version of this photo.
It took a while to get to the awesome point.
I like it.
It stands out from all my other pictures.
OH! Let's try the Image Slider.
Here's how it works...
There's a blue bar in the middle of the picture.
That's the slider.
The slider will disappear when you move your mouse off of the image.
I did that so you can really see the split.
But, it'll come back when you hover over it again.
You can CLICK on it and DRAG it around to get our on split image.
Or, you can use these presets.
Before FULL, After FULL, 50/50, Before a QUARTER, or After a QUARTER.

Before

After

Lovely.
ON TO THE VIDEO!
The last BTS video in the series only had the walks from Day One and Two.
But on Day Three, I recorded a lot more than I should have. :-P
It was 68 minutes uncut.
I got that down to 27 minutes.
But then I wanted to add an update about the Photo Contest stuff at the end.
SO, I added that.
But that was recorded weeks ago.
So, I wanted another more recent update.
Overall the video time came out to 45 minutes.
You can CLICK HERE to see the video or watch it below. 
OK! Now I'm done.
I'm glad this picture turned out better.
Just wait till next week.
THE FINAL PHOTO IN THE SERIES!!!
Well, until we go on more walks.
So, the last one for now!!!
COME BACK NEXT WEEK!!!