Photo editing is sorta like painting--you start with an idea, in this case a photo and then you go through a process to turn it into something else. In painting its sketches and little quick paintings that are used to make decisions for the final canvas--and even then it takes on a process all its own once it is started. In photos the layers and use of filters and toning etc.. really transforms the original photo into something else entirely. I believe in moments and capturing a photograph that doesn't need to be manipulated in the end to make it into something, but the painter in me does like to play and see what I can do, but the original photo still needs to have something worth exploring further. It is also sometimes fun to pair up pictures and see how they work as a group. And sometimes in doing this a theme has to be established to give it continuity. Today I finished going through Dee and Greg's engagement session and had a little fun making these up. It was a pretty productive hour or so session we had with many nice moments and images captured. I'm really looking forward to photographing their wedding this November. SayerMotter Photographs by Richard Sayer.