the crunch and slide
of rocks
under my barefoot shoes
blue sky
reflected on muddy water
a day at the beach
The photo was taken on my recent trip to the Canadian Maritimes at Dennis Beach in New Brunswick. I altered the photo, giving it a painting-like effect, in FotoSketcher. I’ve had it sitting here as my desktop image for a few days and every time I look at it, I hear and feel the crunch and squeak of rocks underfoot as I carefully make my way across the larger rocks down to the sand where walking is much easier. The “barefoot shoes” are Vibrams which simulate barefoot walking. You feel everything underfoot without the ouch factor of actually being barefoot.
Bountiful Healing 
ooh definitely a beach on which one should wear shoes!
loveyl scenery
Thanks, Kel. 🙂
Glad you told me about your modifications – for one horrified moment I feared someone had sat there and painted all those rocks!
lol! Well, it’s a photography thing that I always thought was unnecessary, but others (photographers) find it cheating if you don’t mention the obvious when it comes to altering or manipulating images. I guess they figure those brush strokes were done by the little elves that live inside the camera. 😉
a lovely spot and somehow the painting look brings it very much to life. Now I’m to check out FotoSketcher although, often, that type of software leaves me feeling a bit lost.
Thank you, Joss. 🙂
FotoSketcher is pretty simple to use. It doesn’t have tons of options to chose from like some of the other editing programs.