This monday we had the most spectacular sunset I've seen in a long while.  Michael and I have a very nice view from our backyard and while we were working in the garden and the sun was slowly sinking I could just tell it was going to be a good one.  I ran inside and grabbed my D200 and snapped away.  I will say that I overexposed some shots (for foreground detail) and then did a slight underexposed shot for glorious sky color.  I then place one on top of the other in photoshop and used a mask to bring the best attributes of the picture on bottom.

June Sunset

And since it's a short week and everyone's been taking off here at work, I was slightly bored yesterday and have CS4 on my computer at work, so I played with the only effect I know how to use:  Orton Effect.

Thanks for looking, comments are always appreciated.  Oh and HAPPY 4th EVERYONE!

edit:  for those who want to know how to do the orton effect, here are the instructions