What you've been waiting for and then some

First, and then some...

Venom, we don't worry about you when you cough on crumbs because you are Venom and have superpowers. (this is the part of the photography project where we practice image editing in photoshop. Also had to convert images to black and white, duotone, make edits that look natural, and then do a couple that are practicing other techniques of our own choice. In case you were wondering, this is not the black and white image, and I learned from it that photoshop has many layers.)

And now on to the ones you've been waiting for.

Oak Creek Canyon didn't have much in the way of fall colors yet, but there was a little bit...
Along with some bendy trunks of trees that are fun for boys to bounce around on....
and some nice reflections...

Revisionist Vacation

We're back home, and I'm back at school, learning how to use Photoshop to make some minor changes to our Maui experience...

"...We were watching this sunset at the beach while eating dinner at this great open-air restaurant, and all of the sudden, this giant hermit crab came crawling out of the ocean and onto the sand, just a few feet from where we were sitting! People started screaming and running. Food was flying everywhere. It grabbed our waiter and crushed him with it's claw. The just-lit tiki torches fell over and the restaurant began to burn. I grabbed my camera as Danjo downed the last of his Mahi Mahi. As we ran down the beach path towards our room and away from the chaos, Danjo exclaimed, 'I sure don't remember seeing that while we were snorkeling!' I stopped and looked back. 'Wait!' I cried. Doesn't it look just like the one we had in our hand at the tide pools this morning?' Danjo turned white as a ghost. 'If that's the same one, it could be after us,' he whispered. As one, we turned and fled for the car..."