Wild Island Tilt Shift #3

I know, you're probably tired of these, but I had fun with them and had to post one more. :)

Wild Island Tilt Shift #2

Another image I played around with in Photoshop to make a fake Tilt Shift. At first I didn't like it, but coming back today, I actually DO like it! Sometimes you just need to give yourself some time away from the photo. ;)

Wild Island Tilt Shift

I saw some really cool Tilt Shift photos today and remembered you can make fake ones with Photoshop. It works best with photos where you're looking down on a scene, so I decided to try it with some I took from Wild Island Adventure Park in Reno. It's really, REALLY easy to do. This one turned out pretty good I think, though I need to work on it a little more. I like this effect, it's fun and can transform an ordinary blah photo into something really cool!

Another Wild Island Panorama

Here's another panorama of Wild Island. I climbed to the top of one of the slides that was about in the middle of the park and took 20+ photos, then stitched them all in Photoshop CS5. This does a good job of showing almost all of the things you can do at the water park. There's the lazy river on the left, the wave pool in the middle, one of the kids area way back to the right, the slides we went on a lot next, then the other kids area way back there. There's two more rides that you can barely see on the far right, the slide I was standing on was blocking most of it. And it was nice that it wasn't too crowded, you didn't have to wait in lines for very long. We're definitely going back here next year!

Maddie Coming Down the Water Slide

Maddie just LOVED the water slides! I swear that girl has no fear! As an added bonus, when we were at the Wild Island water park in Reno, she happened to turn 5 that day. An extra special birthday!

She can't swim well enough to go underwater, so the lifeguard would get a signal from up above that they needed to catch the person coming down. They would move in front of the tube and put their floaty thingy at the end so they could catch the person. They were all very nice and cool!

Wild Island Family Adventure Park Water Tubes

Back from a GREAT trip! Each year we go to Reno for about four days. I was going to post a photo each day, but by the time we got back to the room each night I was worn out!

This year we spent a day at the Wild Island Family Adventure Park. The kids just LOVED it! Maddie turned 5 that day and went on several of the tubes BY HERSELF!! That girl has no fear! Fortunately, they have lifeguards on duty all the time, tons of them, and when someone little like her goes down the tubes, they move up to the tube and catch them when they come out so we never worried about her going deep under water.  This is a photo of the tubes we/she went on a lot.  The green one is for innertubes, the other two are to go down by yourself.  Marci & Maddie, and Riley & I went down the green one. That was a blast! I have a ton of other photos from here that I'll be sharing, including a few multi-shot panorama's I took from the top of some of the tube towers.  If you're ever in Reno, this is a great place to go!