This past summer I hiked the Appalachian trail, and having just recently regained the stomach for Appalachian imagery, I went through all the photos in order to pick out ones I wanted to share. There were a ton to go through, and I remembered a lot of them were taken with the intent to edit–lots of (boring) panorama views to be stitched together, photographer-less group shots to be given their photographer, etc–so it was a longish process.

Below are a few examples, with a before-and-after slider bar for you to play with so you can see exactly what’s going on.

 

A more poetic representation of the time…

In conclusion:

If you want, you can see the whole album here