just playing...

Just some more recent photos with my macro lens (I sneaked these in while the boys were busy playing with their cars one morning last week).  I realize composition and focus on these are far from great, but I liked the shapes in them anyway and then I played around with saturation, white balance, and split toning and I really love the end effect.

(this first one is sooc, as a comparison. it was really pretty early morning light)

 

With these I took the white balance sliders made the images much cooler, adding in some split toning on the darks and a vignette... and came out with these gorgeous violet-y tones that I can't quite get over. 

I think this one's my favorite of the bunch: