These are really nice photographs Lori.
Do you use Adobe photoshop or similar program?
I took the liberty to make a small serie of pictures to illustrate. How you choose to modify a picture is somewhat about personal style. Less is always better. The modifications were made in CS3.
Original:
I used healing brush and stamptool to carefully remove dust "snow" from the picture. The picture was quite clean to begin with.
80% autolevels
Smart sharpen levels amount 303% Radius 0,3 pixels
Smart sharpen or USM (unsharpen mask) must be used very carefully and only on the final size. The picture cannot be resized after sharpening.
