One day in Spring earlier this year I decided to go for a walk on the River Wey Navigation (near Guildford, Surrey, UK). And of course I took my camera with me. When I got home the results looked quite disappointing. What I took to be a bright day was actually a misty moisty day. The colours were washed out, there was no contrast, even the patterns and reflections looked dull. Many photos got deleted yet some I continue to work on; feeling that there was something there. The photograph below is the original; muted colours, sky washed out but yet I liked the composition. So I darkened the sky in the hopes of bringing out fluffy Spring clouds and blue skies. What I got were the power cables stretched across the river that my eye/brain had edited out. Almost gave up … but then I cropped it, which gave the boat more prominence and lost the power cables; but still washed out. So I flipped it over to black and white; that gave it much more impact and a bygone days feel. So then I gave it tints; sepia, green and blue. Sometimes you have to give up on an image; sometimes you have to persist. I hope you like the result (original first then the processed image)