Nice funky house. I removed a car that was in the driveway and blurred the neighbour's house.

One of these pictures that require no light adjustement whatsoever. Love the blue house.

I added two light sources: a red one for the fence, and a blue-green one for the sky. Now, we can tell 'oooh what a nice red fence!'

Natural light is all I need for this one...I also decided to use a wider angle than I planned to as it gave the picture a much better balance. Stop sign + palm tree.

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Ususally, I would upload this picture to Deviantart, since I post-processed the previous picture to create this one. Unfortunately, DA is more and more often slow or down :( This is the same picture, filtered to come out as sepia; I added a 50% blue halo to the mailboxes, contoured them and added them using a separate 'burn' layer.

A typical residential street, south of Ventura Blvd.

I was not happy with the previous picture. I felt that the first car was undermining the overall look of the picture. Thus, let's get acquainted with the now darkish car. (black pencil/new layer: 30% burn)

I like the natural composition of this picture: the garden furniture on top of the car port is excellent. I de-focused the car as I do not want it to be the main item.