Show A Photo (or Any Type Of Art) That You Initially Looked Past But Later Liked

This one has emotional connections because friends and neighbors lost their homes. It is the remnants of a nightmare.

Thanks so much for featuring "Playtime on the Farm" in your group!






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This one sat on my HD for months if not longer. I finally decided to throw it on the wall and see if it stuck. It sold as a 20X30 a few months ago!

This languished for a while, but then decided to look at it as a B&W



This one also languished for a while till I finally realised how I wanted to process it. Since sold a number of 16x32 and smaller ones (but not on FAA)

Wow Kathleen that is intense... It a beautiful photo though. That sounds like it was a frightening experience.

Beautiful photos Jessica- I love it in both color and B&W.

Joseph goes to show that you never know what people are looking for! I bet a lot of people have gold sitting in their hard drives!

Beautiful photos Steven - that snowy trail works perfectly in B&W. Congrats on the sales of the Red-winged Blackbird!

I shot several photos of this from different angles but ultimately every one of them looked flat and lifeless. I tried a number of different things, and I'm not well versed in Photoshop. So I abandoned it for a while. As I learned a few new things in Lightroom I revisited the shot and am very happy with it now. In fact it's now one of my favorite shots.

Great photo Chuck! The rust/orange color on the car really pops!

Didn't like the strong color cast the cheap ND filter gave at fist

In fact, I just posted one ...

@ Chuck ... that is a beauty ... I love it ... and I know what you mean about revisiting an old image with new tricks up our sleeves ... big fun!!!

this image was in my hard drive for over 2 years and i was about to delete the whole file. But then after i went over and try a different path of editing, it became one of my favorite...

Thanks Toby and Lois! That one's very cool Lois.

Yea, it is great fun! I kind of get why George Lucas revised the original Star Wars movies. I've been playing a bit with Split Toning lately. I used to think it was a B/W or monochrome tool, but I'm finding it can do some amazing things with color images as well.

Chris, that one really has an interesting quality to it. Though if you really wanted to you could easily change the color cast. Personally I'd leave it. It's very unique.

What great treasures everyone has hidden away.
This one was photographed in 2012 on my last trip to Vancouver Island. I have been going through all my old pictures. Gas is just too expensive now to drive around looking for pictures to take.

I recently sold a bunch of cards from Hawaii so I decided to look back in my files from my trip last Christmas. This image looked sickly in color. I reworked in in Black and White.

Beautiful photos! I agree too that it's amazing what a little editing can do to bring out a photo you aren't crazy about.

Here is another one I wasn't too crazy about out of the box but I decided to do a little editing and give it a black and white 'vintage' look. Whether it worked or not is up for debate but it has sold a couple of times:

I had an awkward photo of the courtyard at the Governor's Palace in San Antonio that I posted even though I was cringing at the time. I took it avoiding the metal wheel chair accessible ramp they had at the base of the door. I'm still not very fond of it, but I finally cropped it, and I kind of like this oddball viewpoint in the cropped version:

This is a blended diptych of two urban abstract images....neither one of them was strong enough to stand alone for my standards.
"painting" them together did, however, create something worth a second look!

Had this one backed up on a cd for a few months and when I revisited it I liked the hues, funny how some things look better after time away, this is why I never delete any of my images and save everything.

I shot an old railway station a while back and didn't like the images I downloaded to my computer. But just this afternoon I went back and decided to devote some time with one of them. The big turn-off was a large porta-pot that I (finally) decided to try to clone out. Here is the result.




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~ Bill
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I didn't like this photo before but now I really like it!