Happy Sunday! What makes me smile? I guess we’ll find out as Ann-Christine from Leya hosts this week’s Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #326 with this exact theme.
It’s really hard to pinpoint exactly what makes me smile these days. I don’t even know. I know I laugh when I watch TV but was I being genuinely happy or was I just laughing at the content?
That’s a question, all right.
One thing I know it made me smile in the past is when I get the shots like these shots of the bald eagle. Even with the lens zoomed to 400-mm, I still had to crop out about 50% of the photo in order to make the bald eagle look larger. I feel like I might need a 600-mm lens but do I really?
Seeing kids at play will definitely put a smile on anyone’s face. That was a fun spring day watching children go wild over bubbles. I wonder whether they think these bubbles are magic or something but their reactions brought a smile to my face as I wrote this now and that day.
Finally, I have been enjoying taking this kind of abstract-like photos. I like the painting-esque feel to these photos and it allows me to be more creative in the editing process and to make these photos different than how they look in reality. The editing process is very fun and it’s something that puts a smile on my face while I’m doing it.
This is Another Story 
As long as we know you smile and find joy. Love the pictures.
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Thank you.
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I like the fact that editing photos makes you smile. Creativity is a beautiful spark to have. 🙂
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I look at photo editing the same way as telling a story but instead of through words, I would be telling my story through a photo.
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Never thought editing photos could feel like that. Good that you can feel that. 🙂
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Well, Yinglan, thank you for bringing up editing photos as a smile evoker! It is fun, isn’t it? When I have succeeded in saving a photo and making it into a gem – that’s among the biggest smiles I can deliver! And your idea of using abstract-like photos to experiment with is brilliant.
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It is fun to edit photos 🙂 and these abstract-like photos are so versatile when it comes to photo editing.
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I like your last 2 photos best – I can hear the passion and joy in your words in creating these photos!
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Thank you. 🙂
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Great ways to make you smile.
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Your abstracts are beautiful and I can relate to the smiles you mention from editing.
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Thank you. 🙂
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