I did not have Lightroom or Photoshop once upon a time. Those days, all I had was a point-and-shoot, if the zoom couldn’t reach what I wanted to photograph, so be it. If the picture came out blurry, into the recycle bin it went. There was no editing, no cropping, nothing.

After I was earning enough to maintain a paid subscription to Lightroom and Photoshop, I think I might had gone a little overboard with editing my photos. Some photos like this one were over-edited by about a mile by my current editing standards. I think at the time, though, I was trying to make my photos into something unusual and, perhaps, extraordinary. I wanted to make an ordinary place that lots of people have been to and turn it into something people can’t see anywhere.

Over time though, I felt the over-edited photos wasn’t what I saw the scene to be and began taking a different approach toward photo-editing.

I think my photo-editing has come a long way since I started editing my photos almost 6 years ago. I feel I went from trying to make my photo into something it’s not to just trying to match the photo to what I saw.