Jun
09

Baker Beach, San Francisco

Posted by DeAnna Allan

While we were in San Francisco, we went driving around sight-seeing, heading in the direction of the Golden Gate Bridge. We drove through Presidio and came to a nice beach called Baker Beach. From the beach you can see the Golden Gate bridge quite well, from the base of the bridge near the San Francisco side. It was quite cold and windy that morning, and very cloudy, but I guess the locals are used to it because Rob found some people playing volleyball on the beach! Kyle was sleeping in the car, so Rob was the one who had the pleasure of walking the beach to get as close to the bridge as he could. Here’s one of my favourite pics of the bridge.

On the way back Rob saw this amazing wooden staircase, and as soon as I saw it, I knew I wanted to do some cool vignetting to it.

That night in the hotel room, I was checking Kimi’s Kreations blog, and she had a link to this great website called Keep Designing, which happened to have a free download of some very cool vignettes. I downloaded it, and this is what I came up with:

I totally love this picture. It was such a great coincidence that the Keep Designing download featured a staircase in the woods! I added a layer and filled it with a nice neutral colour, put a gradient on it and changed the blending mode to Soft Light. I think it gave it a really dreamy look.

I think I might have to print that one out and frame it.

DeAnna

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