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Giving brightness a boost

Giving brightness a boost

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Giving brightness a boost

Occasionally, you're going to end up with a craft photo that just needs a little something extra, and that's how I feel about the image that's on screen right now. So, when my favorite children's book author, Dr Seuss, recently had his birthday, I wanted to craft up a little tribute in his honor, because I loved his books when I was growing up and I still love them today. So I thought that that I would needle felt a Lorax and if you're not familiar with the story of the Lorax he speaks for the trees. So I made this little setting out of drinking straws and pieces of colorful raw wool and it vaguely looks like the tree, forest, that he would have sat on within the original book, but for purposes of staging a craft photo, I was happy with it. Now, I took several photographs, and I do have some that are much better of just the Lorax himself, but I wanted to have one that was an entire habitat shot and when I looked at this photograph I wasn't very pleased with the amount of dark gray…

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