Things I Learned in August

Things I Learned in August…

I participated in two Adobe Creative Challenges – a Photoshop Daily Creative Challenge. To complete the challenge, you needed to complete 7 out of the 9 daily challenges. The second, was the Adobe XD Daily Creative Challenge and the rule was the same – to complete 7 out of the 9 daily challenges.

Photoshop was a little easier because I use it almost every day XD was fairly new, I’d only used that program a few times. But I was determined not to be discourage, I was ready for the challenge! I completed all 9 of the Photoshop Challenges and 8 of the 9 XD Challenges.

Here’s a collage featuring a of few of art boards I created for the Photoshop Challenge.

One of the Adobe XD Challenges was to create an interactive survey. I couldn't get the link to work in the blog unfortunately. But here's one of the art boards I designed for this challenge:

My work and the work of other creatives can be found on the Behance website, along with the daily challenges. Click here. Videos of the daily challenges can also be found on YouTube.

I don’t why, but I love taking pictures of a Full Moon. These were taken on August 27th. There’s so much detail, it’s like you can see the craters and the mountain ridges. My gear for this shot is a Nikon D7100 with a Sigma 100-600mm lens.

Another one of my favorite subjects, other than people, is birds and birding.

I woke of early to just barely in time for lift-off of the Parker Solar Probe.

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