Within last week we took a grand total of 36 exposures on our cameras. Below is my my first attempts of editing those photos on GIMP. With this photo that I took of the basement stairs at the renaissance building, I began by turning the photo into black and white, then played around with the curves feature until I liked the result. I then began burning and dodging areas that I saw fit. unfortunately I feel I became heavy handed and did not like the result. This photo I turned B&W and did not use the curves option. I then dodged the background and burned the cabin to make it stand out. I like the result and think it turned out okay. My only opinion was that the picture was originally a tad blurry and takes away from the over all image.