Shooting in Mount Gretna Monday for a future possible Excursion, I wandered up and down the streets of this boro most of the day. Some streets in the area were so narrow that my van tires barely made it between the curbs. Very quaint. Very nice.
There's plenty to see. The Jigger Shop--a wonderful shaded restaurant and ice cream stand-- a lake for swimming and canoeing, a live theater, tall evergreens everywhere and houses that were originally summer cottages for wealthy folks from Philadelphia. A bike rail-trail is a block outside of town. And there's an art show in August that will knock your socks off.
I stopped to shoot the narrow roads and saw Jasmine, this pure white, long haired cat lounging on a porch. Being white and in the sun, the shade background went black. So I tweaked the contrast, dodged the porch rails, and generally did more work on this than are done on some of the city's downtown murals.
Can't do that in the newspaper. But sometimes it's fun to get into the Photoshop tool box and play.
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