Recently upgraded photo editing software; having fun: I’m personally incapable of appreciating black and white photographs – will have to work on that. Superficial amusement with colors will continue. 

The original for comparison.

Even angry Mongol warriors need to take time to be thankful. Conquest without spoils? Nonsense.

These are from a recent trip to Mount Wudang (Wutang…) I don’t really consider myself a good photographer, because what I primarily do is take strange pictures with a decent camera and then mess with colors until it looks good. Over time I’ve found that I’m getting better at actually taking good original photos, but most require quite a bit of touching up – maybe there’s skill in artifice, I’m inclined to thank software creators. Here’s a comparison of a barely edited photo, and an extremely edited photo with the original:

The before version is here.