Long time no post

It has been a month since my last post. I have been out a few times to shoot pictures, but as the season changes the weather and lack of light has been a struggle for me.. I have been taking this time to read my photo books (got a couple great ones as early Christmas presents) and am hoping Santa brings me an external flash. Below I am sharing my first try at editing a picture I took in RAW and  also saved as a JPG file. I really wanted to do some fancy editing in Photoshop but I am soooo overwhelmed when I open the program I revert back to Picasa for editing. I will take the time this winter to master (yeah right) Photoshop.

RAW (edited then saved to JPG)

Edited in JPG