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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only
plan, but also believe.” -French writer and Nobel Prize winner Anatole France
This serves as my theme for the days photo manipulation. Most of the images used in this photo is from the Miss Universe Pageant 2010. This includes the crown, the background and the bouquet of flowers including the hand. The main subject here is the little girl from Lipa (coming from one of our stock photos from the UN Parade of Nations held at SM City Lipa).
The editing was rendered using Adobe Photoshop CS3.
It is just a simple crop and mask style and not much of a hardcore editing. A few layer adjustments and lighting and that’s it. Anyway, my goal here is not to present the best photo manipulation on the net, but to tell a story.
I saw this girl at the back stage patiently waiting for her name to be called and I’ve noticed that she is always wearing that wonderful smile. There were more than 400 participants in the event and in spite of the boredom and the “banas“, she still managed to give me some of her model poses (that her Mama thought her, perhaps) and the celebrity smile as i took some pictures of her. I thought maybe, somehow, this girl wants to be a beauty queen someday. Who knows? Maybe She’ll be the Miss Universe of her generation. A little girl with major major dreams.
Ask yourself and reflect; Are we really living the dream we set out to dream? Was our dream big enough? Did we even have a dream?
We need a dream, and we need to dream big!
