Well the previous post happened largely by accident. I was unsure what image I wanted to show next, what I wanted to say next, and came across the photo I eventually used whilst searching through my Australian folders; often a happy hunting ground. Yet there is nothing specifically Australian about it so I decided to look for photos with similar potential in other folders. I came across a series of photos, taken in Cumbria, of a small beck on the south side of e Crummockwater. So I played with it in a similar vein to the previous post. There is less photoshopping than you might think. The tumbling waters of the beck, reflecting the blue sky , red and yellow rocks, ripples and swirls in the water; all were there. So I enhanced the colour, obviously, and cropped it heavily to take out unnecessary detail; but no twirling or swirling, no distorting. Muse&Mentor tells me that any photographer can take a nice photo, a happy memento of a place visited, the artist/photographer chooses what to accept, what to reject and how to develop the art and create the image. So a happy collaboration between Gaia, our beautiful planet, and myself.