This post is really more for me. I’d like to be able to look back on this one someday and see how much I’ve grown in my work.

I’ll explain:

Earlier this month, in an attempt to combat the boredom during another rainy weekend (I, like a witch, will most certainly melt out in the cold summer rain.) began to play around with Adobe Lightroom [a photo editing program for the computer]. Up until this point, everything I have ever edited has either been on an online website (picmonkey.com) or a phone app (VSCO). Most of my photos turn out fine for situations like Facebook or Instagram, but they lose their quality in larger formats like a computer screen or being printed for hanging on my wall.

So here is my before image, raw (literally) from the camera:

And my after image, post Lightroom production.

Is it amazing? No. It’s my first image and I don’t expect it to be, but I’d like to look back in 100, 1,000 or even 10,000 images and see what kind of progress I’ve made.