I just stumbled upon this tag and I have to say, pretty cool that there's a Photography section here. I've been an amateur photographer for as long as I can remember(I know, pretty lame that I didn't turn professional by now), but I've pivoted into photo retouching as I was way more fascinated with that part of the process. I've always been socially awkward and that's definitely not a "quality" professional photographers have. Not much of a writer(I prefer to let my pictures do the talking) as I'm sure you can tell by now and this is my first post here so be gentle.
I surprised my girlfriend(at the time) with a trip to the seaside. I've deceived her into thinking it was just a casual meet-up and I packed our stuff up and went to see her. She acted pretty shocked when she saw me carrying a huge rucksack on my back and caaasually dragging the tightly packed tent. I always liked surprising the people in my life with bold and shocking ideas. Well, anyway, this went as planned and we got on the train and we had our own compartment where there were no people and we had all the room in the world. As per usual, I had my camera with me, ready to take random pics and then going through thousands of them looking for the gems.
Fast-forward to a month after this trip I finally decided to go through the photos. Yes, I am a HUGE procrastinator. Found a gem, stayed up all night trying out stuff in Photoshop and see where my creative process took me. I rarely have an idea in mind when I start editing a photo. I prefer finding it along the way and let the photo be my guide.
This was my result and my first attempt at turning a normal portrait of my yawning girlfriend into a watercolor "painting" in post-processing.
Maybe I'll turn this into a regular thing and post once a week while enjoying a nice glass of wine. Who knows, maybe I'll get off my ass and start shooting&editing more.