When I go out to shoot, I will head into the woods on a hiking trail but once in the woods I wander off the trail searching for subjects to shoot.

Whatever random path I choose on that day it may be taking me to some really great subjects or maybe nothing worth shooting.

The path I took may have been just a short distance from some really great subjects, but I'll never see them on the path I chose.

So, each time I go out I never know if I took that right path on that day.

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I like when I find a pair of flowers where the viewer sees the front view of one flower and sees the side view of another flower. Not easy to find them this way.

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Some of my flower images are okay but need a little something extra, like an interesting effect to make it a little more artistic.

Here are two images that I find just basic flower shots that are not all the impressive and need a little help.

In Smart Photo Editor there is this cool crackled effect filter that I thought would look fun on these two images. 

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Shot this last year at the Chicago Botanical Gardens. They have a huge rose garden.

Here is the processed image in Smart Photo Editor.

Here is the original out of the camera.

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Many years ago, I was at a local park standing next to a very small waterfall in a stream watching the water at the bottom of the falls create bubbles that floated over to the streams edge where I was standing.

I had my tripod set up and camera pointed down at the bubbles thinking it would be cool abstract image.

I was using a 180-macro lens and a Fuji S5 camera body, so this was shot a long time ago.

As I looked through the camera's view finder, I noticed I was being reflected in all the bubbles along with my tripod and the fall leafless trees. 

How cool is that.

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