This is the original. I like the photo, but it's a little dull...nothing very dramatic or exceptional here.

With this one I adjusted the levels and upped the saturation to pick up on the red in the brick. I then selected to lasso tool and worked it around the sky. In this one I tried to work around the weather vane, but I thought it did not workout as well as I would have liked. I than played with the color levels, lighting and saturation to get this warm sunset glow.

This one I did the same as above, but did not cut out the weather vane...I think it looks better this way. I then played with the lighting filter and directed the beam of light to look like a cloud had parted and tahh dahh...this is what I got. Ok, but I would have liked a little more cloud definition...I'll have to work on that!

This one was just for fun (can you ever really have too much?) With this one I took the shot of an ice crystal ball and blended a photo of fireworks....cool effect don't you think?? I still need to figure out the lighting adjustments a little better with each image so I can fine tune the details. Enough for now....I'm glad I'm taking Psychology of addiction...or I might develop an addiction with GIMP!