Industrial

I have a feeling this is going to be the start of a beautiful relationship with Industrial photos.
Ever since I discovered the National Geographic website, I have been beyond inspired to take different types of photos that I would never have thought to snap before.

However, I'm still editing photos because I find with my camera it's hard to take a perfect photo unedited. Ugh! One day, I will have a better camera, one day.

I've also decided it's my dream to just take photos of the world from anywhere and everywhere which is why I need to make it my mission to travel at LEAST once a year to somewhere new. I just need to take photos of beautiful things, it's seriously the most exhilarating, heart pounding, most amazing feeling for me. When I took these photos, I'm pretty sure I was driving in a forbidden place and the rush of it was out of this world. And these photos aren't even that good! Haha. I just love it so much.

Trains

What a stressful day today was!!
Work felt like it lasted 4 million years and then I went to the grocery store afterwards and I'm pretty sure the rest of the city was there too. Let's just say some photography therapy was needed.

I took a drive to a place I've never been before and to be honest, I'm not even sure I was allowed to be there. I'm kicking myself now because I didn't see any "no trespassing" signs where I was (even though I know further up there would have been) and I missed out on a great photo opportunity. It was very industrial where I was and I did manage to snap a few good pics.

I feel bad because National Geographic says not to edit your photos but sometimes I just love the way you can boost the appeal of a photo with just a few little editing tricks. For example, the photos above were so "blah" before I added some contrast to them.

I'll be uploading some unedited photos from today on Sunday to the National Geographic website and hopefully some people will like my unedited photos better than I do. I guess I just have to learn to embrace the natural look of a photo or perhaps fiddle with my camera settings a bit harder to capture a prettier photo unedited.

Enjoy your Thursday! I don't know about you, but I cannot wait until the weekend!!

Proud Amateur

It's amazing what kind of magic can happen with a few tweaks to brightness, contrast, colour, tint & saturation!

I know they're not the best or anything and I'm way BELOW amateur level, but I'm super proud of these photos.