Family Beach Vacation

[gnelson]

My family goes to the beach every year for a full week. By "family" I mean about 30 people or so. I have a TON in Flickr, so feel free to ramble over that way if you want to see more. Here are a few that I took that I just love:

[fstopMike]

Georgia, I love them all! They're so good. But that third one....it's extra special. The composition and the emotion that it evokes is what makes that image, and so much so, that I think it must be a much lesser photo in color.

[gnelson]

It's actually not so bad in color, but I prefer a warm black and white processing on images that invoke emotion and drama like that one. I would have done it on the one of my husband by the water with the baby, but I thought it dulled the waves down too much... and wow they were cool. I took those pictures when the solar eclipse was happening in Asia and the high tide that night was freaking amazing!

[CatcherT]

yup, just beautiful! and I agree about the 3rd one, thats the "wow" pic! nice job

[bgg]

Georgia, I just got back from the beach myself, looks like you had fun too, your shots are fantastic, nice job

[leonaashlee]

Georgia, very nice set of photos there...vacations like that are such fun.

[jgomez65]

Yeah, the third one is really special!!! Nice shot

[rdeol]

I love that third shot too.

Could you explain how you got that effect? I would love to try that with my little nephew (2months old).

Thanks

[gnelson]

Rdeol, what effect do you mean? The black & white?

[rdeol]

Yeah I was just wondering what you did in photoshop after to enhance the picture.