Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: rest area

Sculpture at the John C. Mackie Welcome Center & Rest Area, Clare, Michigan.

Here's a very different treatment of the Bronson Hospital park bench photo I posted a year ago as part of my 366 Snaps project. The bench offers a shaded place to escape from the nurses and interruptions and general boredom. But not the worries. Besides, it looks like a place from a fantasy tale. As I noted earlier , this was the first photo I seriously reworked using Bibble Pro's built-in tools. This version's been cropped, desaturated a bit, and had the Black slider pushed way off to the right. Plus some lesser-impact stuff. (The B/W version features tricks to push the contrast up....) (As usual, I did the final sharpening and the frame in Photoshop Elements.)

This rest stop--it's on US-131 south of Big Rapids--is about ninety minutes out from our house. We pretty much always take a break here on our way to Traverse City. (Or Leland. Or Petoskey.) And an oddity: Though I only took a handful of photographs with my original Droid phone, one was taken here . ========== When I found the pretty fan in our room at Pointes North, it was obviously going to be the day's photo subject. And so it was. The photo was processed in the phone using Photoshop Express. This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 23 Title of " roll :" Off to TC Other photos taken on 2/25/2012: I took five photographs from our hotel room--of the East Bay--with the Cybershot. That camera's card also held six photographs I'd taken earlier in the week, one of which was this excellent photo of our cat , Oreo.