What a way to follow up! Haha!

Well, first just let me say thanks so much for all your kind words on my blog. You really know how to make a girl feel good about herself! :-) I appreciate all of your comments & visits.

**Warning: the next paragraph is SUPER boring unless you're interested in post processing! Feel free to skip it! Haha!**

For those that asked about post processing on the photos in my last post...this little paragraph is for you. I've been slowly developing my own workflow lately in PSCS2. These are my steps: defog, use sponge tool to saturate background at about 10-15% opacity, duplicate layer & set mode to soft light & lower opacity to taste. Flatten image. Burn edges. Now, in the second photo, I added a step between the flatten image & burn edges steps. In this one, I created a copy of the same image, changed mode to grayscale, then changed mode to duotone. When the duotone window pulled up, I set the first color to a navy & the second color to a bluish-grey color & click okay. Then, I dragged the duotone image directly on top of my other post processed color image. I then changed the duotone layer mode to hardlight. It's this last step that gave it the really stormy, gray look. Flatten image. I think that's pretty much it...probably a little tweaking here & there.

So, anyway, I did take pictures today. However, I don't really have permission to share the photos. I took a few shots of the board of directors for the place Curt works (for those of you wondering.) Anyway, while I was waiting in the lobby where I was to be taking the photos, I sat down on a little couch. Directly across from me was a glass door. I saw my reflection and thought, "hmmm...self portrait?" :-) So, yeah...that's what we've got here. Though it's definitely no masterpiece or work of art, I kinda like it. Please just ignore the push bar on the door which happens to run directly through my head. Let's pretend it's not there, okay? :-)

My somewhat accidental self portrait: