A Day in Nature

My friend says to me, "c'mon, lets go take a day out in nature today" and so we head out. I grab my backpack and water bottle fill it with the necessities and we head off. First we stop by a precious waterfall and we hear the water crashing onto the water below it and see the bees peacefully taking the nectar out of the flowers. we stop take some pictures and quickly head out to find the other places we will be going. We stop by a field of lowers and se that there is a multitude of gorgeous flowers that smell like the birth of spring and attract all the animals around. We head down farther to the bay where we find tiny pebbles that are dull on our feet but it doesn't hurt us enough to stop. We let the cool refreshing water hit our feet as the lake plays with our feet. Time passes and we decide to further on and we see the peak of a mountain. We see the snowy mountains and the pine trees standing like green giants, then head over to a massive lake and see that there is a beautiful reflection on the water that is mirroring the green giants. At the end we saw a beautiful sunset on the beach and find a nearby sunflower field.

My theme for this panorama was a nature theme and I decided to let it be in black and white so I could let the viewer interpret how the images looked and "felt" like. I embedded a few images into others and make the viewer question if its actually a part of the original or edited there cleaver. The hardest part of this whole project was definitely getting inspired and telling a story with it.

After finishing this project I realized that it wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be and it was fun for the most part. I got a bit frustrated when it didn't look like the way I envisioned it and since I had a time limit it was even more stressful but it was a good challenge that pushed me to become better and find inspiration. The skill I struggled with the most was blending the pictures and making sure that they "flowed" and were cohesive. I used a lot of masks and "selecting and Mask" options to get the pictured together. I found that my creative side came out when I put the firework from one of my images into the lake and I put the "rainforest" in the sunflower field. I also used some tools I've never used before and I tried to play around with some new tools and see what I could do. the one I liked the most was the judge tool which allowed me to Mae a "fading" or "dark transition" effect.