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Happy Weekend.  For many this weekend means your first trip to the beach for the summer of 2010 so in honor of beach weekend we head to Virginia Beach and a major historic Landmark.

If you have ever spend any time in Virginia Beach you have seen the Cavalier.   It’s one of the most famous beach landmarks on the east coast and certainly the most famous in Virginia Beach.

This hotel, according to VirginiaBeach.com “opened in 1927, and has entertained seven US Presidents: Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. Throughout World War II, the U.S. Navy took over the hotel and operated a Radar Training School. After the war, the US Government helped return it to “hotel” conditions.

The hotel is also known as the hotel Dennis the Menace spent his summer vacations since cartoonist Hank Ketchum, his wife, Alice, and his world famous son, Dennis, were guests at the hotel over many summers. Mr. Ketchum subsequently drew several “Dennis the Menace” cartoons based upon his family’s stay and Dennis antics while on vacation there.”

I have been traveling to VA Beach since I was in high school yet I have actually never been inside the Cavalier. I think I am going to have to make it a point to actually go in the next time we head that way.

Isn’t it gorgeous? I took this from our car window (as we were driving) when we were at the beach a few weeks ago.

Thanks for looking! I hope you have a safe and wonderful weekend.  Please take some time and remember those who died protecting our freedoms.   I am not sure how much blogging I will do this weekend so until next time, take care!

We’ve had a lot of rain here the last week or so and I just haven’t been able to get outside with my camera like I wish I could so I have been concentrating on learning more of Topaz Adjust. I saw a blog post on using it on pet portraits and decided to try it on a recent photo I had taken of Riley. I’m not 100% sure about this yet, what do you think?

As always, thanks for looking and commenting…

This was taken in Maymont Park here in Richmond. I have actually photographed it several times but this time it was just the right light to finally capture the shadows that have been escaping me. I really, really liked the untouched version but decided to take it into Topaz Adjust to see what I could do with it to enhance it even more.

Upon adding the treatment I don’t like it anymore.. I LOVE it!!! and that is something I rarely say about my own photographs. Seriously, if you haven’t bought Topaz Adjust and Topaz Detail yet, you just don’t know what you are missing.

What do you think? Too much, not enough?? .

Thanks for looking. Until next time. Take care..