Summer heat... both good and bad

The nice thing about summer is, well, it's warm. And that's a good thing usually. But sometimes when it climbs up to 100 degrees you don't exactly want to be outside. This is when I crawl into my home office and spend all of my "free time" (I say that with a smile because I have 3 kids, and don't have much free time) re-editing past sessions. I am always happy when I do this because I undoubtedly find images that I overlooked the first time. My workflow is very rigid and that occasionally leads me to skip over some images that are really worth editing to get just right... such as these two: