Day 96 of 365 Day Challenge

Our resort has it's own nature reserve and we went on the nocturnal walk last night and saw a green viper, a mouse deer and a civet cat. Today we went to see them feeding the two orangutan youngsters who are being rehabilitated to go back into the wild. My picture for today was going to be the orangutan but it is our last evening and the sunset was so stunning I just had to use that instead.

Camera+, Snapseed, retouch.

However I have included a picture of the orangutan. I used my telephoto lens and again I struggled to get sharp pictures. They do not compare with what I can get with my Panasonic LUMIX but with a little tweaking the best ones were okay.

Taken with Camera+, cropped and enhanced in Snapseed and a texture formula applied in Stackables.

Day 95 of 365 Day Challenge

HAPPY EASTER!

Mr and Mrs Easter Bunny were out today, so well it had to be didn't it.

I took the image with Camera+ and cropped and tuned it in Snapseed. Then I created a pastel background in iColorama although this disappeared at the end. I cut out the two bunnies in Photoshop Touch and then took it into SketchClub to emphasis the painted faces and to add the new background. Then it was into Repix to posterise the background and parts of the bunnies. To give it a fun look I took it into Aerograph and found an effect I like. Lastly, back into SketchClub to clean up the faces by erasing them with a low opacity to bring the previous faces back in.

Day 94 of 365 Day Challenge

I am amazed at the size of some of the insects here. Massive hornets or what I think are hornets. Then there are these massive bees, which with a quick internet search, I find out is a Carpenter Bee and this is today's picture. Taken with Hipstamatic, cropped and tuned with Snapseed with a slight alteration in Superimpose.

Day 93 of 365 Day Challenge

We had a superb day today and a gorgeous sunset here in Borneo. The sea temperature is just sublime which is just as well because it's hot and humid. The powdery white sand is too hot to walk on so it's rather comical watching everybody wade through it in their flip flops.

So today's picture was taken with Hipstamatic (Helga Viking + Kodot XGrizzled). The problem with taking the horizon with an iPhone is that it is difficult to take it without it being skew especially if you are taking a quick shot and there are no guidelines in Hipstamatic. So yes, the horizon is slightly skew but I'm leaving it. I did punch up the colour and silhouette in Snapseed.

Another picture taken looking towards the hotel. Cropped in Snapseed.

Day 92 of 365 Day Challenge

It's a travel day today which means not much time to get today's photo. We have arrived in the evening at our resort in Borneo so I am rushing around trying to get a couple of shots before we have supper and retire. Hopefully I will have some interesting ones tomorrow.

Taken with the Hipstamatic App on iPhone 6 with a slight touch up in Retouch.

Day 91 of 365 Day Challenge

I went hiking today with 9 of my friends around the Aberdeen Reservoir in Hong Kong. It was a lovely day and a very enjoyable stroll catching up with everybody and enjoying the countryside and watching the black kites circling around.

There is lots of dense bush and not many flowers but towards the end of the walk I managed to get a couple of shots of little flowers, so today's picture is yet another flower and below that are some shots of the reservoir and the view. The flower was taken with the Hipstamatic app and the others with a new HDR camera app that I am testing. I set the highlights quite low for the latter shots because it was a very hazy with a sharp light so they have come out perhaps a little dark but I was very pleased with the results considering the harsh light and it is easier to lighten them later than make them darker.