Strange Sunsets

I call them "strange" sunsets because of what I did to them in Photoshop. These are "after" and "before" pictures, and all were taken in Greece. The first one is at the island of Simi.

Original

This harbor in Rhodes, where we were moored.

Original

At the island of Paros.

Original

Chania, on the island of Crete. Guess I was getting tired of sunsets at this point because I went a little extreme in Photoshop....

Original. Again, these are from slides taken in 1987-1988. Earlier post with pictures from the Greek islands: here.

Greek Islands

As a continuation to yesterday's post, here are more images I've developed in Photoshop from a selection of the slides we took in the Greek Islands.

This is the original photo that I used for the first image. Taken on the island of Astipalaia in August of 1987. I remember that because I celebrated my 40th birthday while we were there. Wasn't much of a town we walked to, but we did find an open eatery. They didn't even have a menu. I'm not the most adventurous eater, so I had eggplant. Ed ate the goat.

This was in Chania, on the island of Crete. Chania is a really beautiful harbor. We were anchored here for several days.

The original slide.

A beautiful yacht taken at the island of Kos.

You can see a minaret in the background of this original.

I loved the white architecture in Mikonos, and all the neat stairs and alleyways.

Original slide.

This was taken at the island of Milos.

Original.

We were motoring past Sifnos when I took this shot. We weren't sailing because it was perfectly calm, no wind, so we were putt-puttsing along.

The original. If you wonder how I'm so good at remembering all the names of the islands, the trick is that the slides are labeled. Good thing, because I wouldn't have a clue otherwise! See the black spots in the sky and water on this original? As I mentioned yesterday, I need to clean the glass scanner plate before I scan anymore slides....

Travels on Tropic Moon

My husband and I lived on Tropic Moon, a 42-foot sailboat, from 1978-1992. We took a lot of slides during that time. As I study and practice more with Photoshop, it occurred to me that our slides would be a good source of images for me to work with. And, fortunately, I have a scanner that scans slides. The first picture was taken at St. John's Harbor, Antigua, in the Caribbean (early 1980's). Lots of bananas for sale!

This is the original slide I used. I started by cropping a section of the picture, and then altering it in Photoshop.
This next picture was taken on Mikonos, one of the Greek islands, probably in 1987.

(Said the donkey: If we both keep our eyes closed, maybe they won't be able to see us!)

Here's the original slide. While the slides looked good when viewed with a slide projector and shown on a white screen, most of the slides scanned really dark. They were much more difficult to work with than the pictures I take with my digital camera. There were also strange spots on some of the images that I first thought might be deterioration in the slides. (Note to self: Dust and clean the glass plate on scanner before scanning more slides....)