Enjoying fall while it's still here (and a before-and-after photo edit)

I've got some house and decor related posts planned for the next couple days/weeks. I'm also going to be making some design changes to the blog. It's feeling a little stale. In the meantime, let's just enjoy fall while it's here. In Minnesota, we don't have long before bitter winter creeps in.

For the photo people:

These  photos taken with Sony a65 camera and borrowed Sigma 105mm lens.

Same settings for each pic:

f3.5

1/400

ISO 100

105mm

Interesting to note that you can get beautiful bokeh backgrounds at f3.5

For processing, I used the exact technique that I wrote about in this post: Fast and subtle editing technique step-by-step

And here is a before-and-after to demonstrate the processing. First pic is straight out of camera. Second is after editing in Photoshop.