Google just acquired NIK software...and a couple of ColorSplash reflections

Google has just acquired Snapseed. Read more here

So...now Snapseed is to Google as Instagram is to Facebook, it seems...

Interesting to see where this is all going...

A couple of mountain-reflection scenes to post tonight.

I was going through some photos from this past summer on my iPhone; 

thought this scene of Goat Lake in the Central Cascades

would be fun to edit with the ColorSplash app in addition to snapseed:

Below, this is a 'transplanted' scene--taken several years ago at Upper Tipsoo Lake near Mt. Rainier...I e-mailed it to my iPhone in order to play with it using snapseed and ColorSplash as well:

Reflections can be as compelling as what they reflect...like a dream can seem more real than the awakening...

Pacific NW--city and mountain scenes

Got back five days ago from a visit to Seattle; also spent some time hiking in the Cascades...Here are some snapseeded iPhone shots of city and mountain:

--breakfast scene at The Crumpet Shop: 

 --iconic Pike Place Market scene:

 --summer in the Pacific NW means cherries:

--eat breakfast under a boat, Portage Bay Café:

--kayaking in Portage Bay, dodging boat draft, darting under bridges, being a polite voyeur around houseboats:

--Phnom Penh, my favorite Cambodian restaurant in the Chinatown/International District:

(above and below, using the "PicFrame" app)

--are those hashtags on this totemic headpiece in front of the Burke Museum?

Now...

out of the city...

--hiking the trail along Elliott Creek up to Goat Lake in the Central Cascades:

--Cadet Peak, reflected in Goat Lake:

Below, the 'before-shot' really shows what the snapseed app can do in order to mimic correcting the exposure in an iPhone shot:

--three iPhone photos stitched together (using the AutoStitch app) for a panorama of Goat Lake:

 --playing with the reflection in the clear lake, when the breeze died down, for an almost-mirror-like scene:

--Big Four Mountain and the Stillaguamish River:

Another 'before'-scene--this showing Mt. Stuart from the trail up to Lake Colchuck:

Too dark.

Below--'extreme' snapseeding of the same scene: 

--back to less extreme editing,
Aasgard Pass above Lake Colchuck:

--facing Dragontail Peak above the glaciallly-colored lake:

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Flying from Arizona to Washington, your plane is most likely going to go over the Grand Canyon;

get a window seat if at all possible;

even from thirty-some-thousand feet above,

the chasms seem endless:

...and finally, back to Tucson. Driving around town earlier today, this house caught my eye--so, adobe doesn't have to be earth-toned: