Little House on Antrim Coast

Little House on Antrim Coast
Originally uploaded by randubnick.

Mel is spending ten days in Belfast, so I decided to post an image of Northern Ireland. This is from my first visit there. We drove up the Antrim Coast road, and spectacular views just kept coming, so I took pictures from a moving car with my disposable camera. Recently, I cropped this image out of one of those photos. After the image was cropped, I was happy with the composition but the image was too blurry, with color seeming to "bleed" outside the lines. So I opened the file in Painter IX and edited it to clean up some of the lines of the house. I left the rest of the image alone because the soft edges seem to work with the hills and clouds in the distance.

Antrim Coast Road

Today I was reading a book about editing photographs, so I decided to edit some photos from my first trip to Northern Ireland last winter. I was completely unprepared for the beauty of the Antrim Coast Road. I took a picture through the windshield of the car. This is the edited version that I worked on tonight. I cropped the image but left one reflection, which somehow seems to work with the composition.

Near the Antrim Coast

This is a watercolor I did from a photo I took in Northern Ireland last year. We found a restaurant as we were driving on the Antrim Coast, and although the food was great, the view was better.