this is just my temporary home: Etsy Inspiration

Today I was on etsy looking at different photographic prints for sale because I'm considering opening an etsy store. I came across a ton of gorgeous photos but one store in particular caught my eye and I love, love, love the photos in this store. {Her beach photos are my favorites.}

Anyway as I was looking through her beach photos and then other beach photography, I started to wish I had such amazing beach photos. And then to my delight I remembered that I still had several beach photos from last summer that I had never done anything with. So I transfered the ones I wanted to use from the family pc to my laptop. The photos I saw on etsy inspired me to edit these photos a little differently than I normally would and I love how they turned out!

I can't believe the photos above were ones I overlooked when I was sorting through my beach pictures in the summer {by the way these are from Ocean City NJ in case any of you were wondering}. I guess it shows you how changing up your editing routine can make a BIG difference.

This next photo was actually taken in June 2010 at Ocean City, NJ with my previous camera (a Kodak Z918 - which is just a more advanced point&shoot). Here's the originial, SOOC shot:

And here is the edit inspired by beach photos found on etsy:

{Linking up this before & after at Follow God Every Day}

You can't even tell it was taken with a point&shoot! I'm so glad that I my editing skills have improved because I definitely couldn't have edited it like that a year ago.
And another one taken with my point&shoot:

And another beach before and after:

And the whole edited picture:

I know I've shared the below photo before but it was one of my favorites from the summer but I wanted to try editing it similarily to the above photos so I re-edited and decided to share the before and after: