wordless, somewhat, wednesday

i cannot remember

 where i was 

when i took this photo 

but 

i will tell you 

that originally 

the photo was very much a silhouette 

the sum was so strong

everything in the foreground was black 

in shadow 

the sky dominated

 i messed with it

 got the exposure to balance

 a bit better

 then

 had to hit it with some topaz simplify 

its still way off 

i would have used another photo 

one of the over 29,000 

i had in the iCloud

 but

 ever since this past weekend

 i have been retlentlessly weeding out

 the duplicates 

the same old same old shots

trying to get a more reasonable library

 not easy 

but 

i am going to do it 

turned out the iphone was not the issue

 the problem lies in connecting to the iCloud 

and

that may be 

in part 

due to the humongous size 

of my photo library 

nevertheless 

it has spurred me 

to take action 

and 

purge