Picture 409 | A Walk through the "Park"-Part 3...

So!
Sorry I didn’t post yesterday.
I try to go for Wednesdays.
However, something happened yesterday.

I SLEPT!!!
I’ve been going off of 3 hours of sleep for the past few days.
I usually lay down at midnight and I just…. lay… there.
Until 5 or 6 am.
:-\
Then I have to get up at 9 and I don’t fall back to sleep after that.
So, all this lack of sleep finally caught up with me.
At 7 PM yesterday….
I slept.
I SLEPT GOOD.
WOOOO!!!
It was great.
So, maybe now I’ll be back on a normal human schedule.
ANYWAYS!!
Today, I hung out with my grandmother.
WE MADE LOADS OF FUDGE!!!
……….
Real fudge.
Chocolate…
I don’t know why I had to explain that.
…………..
There’s a variety of flavors!
That’s basically all I did today.
I did work on the websites a bit.
I updated things and got them ready for 2017.
That’s really it.
Site building and fudge making.
It’s currently starting to snow.
We are supposed to get a snowstorm.
Hopefully is doesn’t get too bad!
I’LL GET STUCK HERE!!!
QUICK, ONTO THE PICTURE!
This is the THIRD picture in this year's Park Pictures.
Here’s the first and here’s the second.
I almost didn’t have a picture this week.
With all the Park videos that I have done so far, I had a picture that I made during that video.
However, this week’s video didn’t have a picture.
I didn’t make one.
So, I had to look ahead to next week’s video.
I had made TWO pictures in that video.
SOOOOO…. I just stole that extra one and used it for this week.
SIMPLE!
Also, I uploaded this picture to Facebook earlier this week.
We got done editing the pictures for the CONTEST!!!
We had a total of 1,150 pictures to choice from!!!!
We narrowed that down to 60.
After we did that, I uploaded them to Facebook for my friends to vote on and pick which ones they like.
That will help us narrow down the 60.
We can only pick 9 after all.
There has been a BOAT LOAD of votes that have come in and we are kind-of getting an idea of what to do.
I’ll keep pushing the voting a little bit long to see what else happens.
Anyways, like I said, this picture was a part of that 60.
Actually, it was a different version of it.
Here’s the one we picked for the contest…

See, I’m a little closer than the one I used for this week.
Also, in that one we didn’t go crazy with the colors.
My Aunt made me hold back.
So, for this other version, I added much more color!
And that’s really it.
Maybe a little more contrast and clarity.
OH, and I changed the color temperature to make it appear warmer by adding more orange.
Simple stuff!!!
COMPARE!!!
First off, I cropped the picture.
Here's the original...

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!!
Just what I wanted!
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 own split image.
Or, you can use these presets.
Before FULL, After FULL, 50/50, Before a QUARTER, or After a QUARTER.

Before

After

Now, this week’s video is interesting.
We technically didn’t go to a park.
We drove around and looked at these fancy quilt gardens.
A few of the pictures we made are actually getting a lot of votes in that Facebook poll.
The only thing you would see it the shooting of this week’s picture.
Because it’s from the future.
You will see me editing the picture.
But the actual videos of shooting the picture is in next week’s video.
The video isn’t too long this time.
I did ramble a bit in the editing of the picture.
You can CLICK HERE to see the video or watch it below.

ALRIGHT!
ALL DONE!!
I guess I’m going to stay at my Aunt’s place instead of going home.
The snow got a bit too bad out there.
OH WELL.
COME BACK ON NEW YEARS!!!
Which is in two days.
I'll try to do something then!!