Caldera Valley, Chiriqui, Panama
A few snaps taken on the move while driving down the Caldera valley in Chiriqui. No great masterpieces, but I hope they give you an idea of the countryside in the area. After Boquete the drive down the valley to the Chiriqui-Bocas Road was a pleasant excursion. As always, clicking on any of the thumbnails takes you to the full size picture and gallery.
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Penonome Carnaval Parades
This album shows some of the carnaval floats from the night-time parade through the center of Penonome. After a day of getting soaked by water cannons and beer drinking, the evening festivities are great entertainment. The amount of work that goes into the floats always amazes me.
As always, clicking on any of the thumbnails will take you to the full size photo album.
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Photoscape Experimenting
The more I play with Photoscape, the more I like it. Simple to use and effective for many editing jobs.
This 1st pic shows a few of the features. The original in the background was far too dark and dull. 2 clicks added light and contrast. 1 more click added a frame. Then choose a layout and drag n’ drop the 2 photos into place.
The next 2 pics are from a simple group shot. Cropped and saved the portraits and then used filters to soften and lighten the faces.
Lightening and mole removal are so easy to do with Photoscape. This software may even make a decent photographer out of me, 
For this crop I just used the smoothing filter to soften the skin, with no lighting changes.
Photoscape has many more options, I’m still finding more as I experiment. For free software it is tremendous and well worth a donation to the developers.
Finally, an attempt at lifting the colours of one of the waterfall pictures I was disappointed with before. Not a great improvement, but it’s hard to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
Better?? Worse?? Too Artificial?? Any suggestions for improvement are welcome.
You can get a FREE copy of Photoscape too, HERE. Just click on the screenshot to visit the download site.
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