PW Photo Edit Assignment

The Pioneer Woman had an editing assignment, usually has one once a week now, and since I'm just looking for things to do with all of the excess time I have on hand I thought I'd join in on the fun and try out an edit. She has thousands and THOUSANDS of fans, awesome giveaways, and great tips on photography if you're ever looking for some.
Here's the original, taken by her. Such a cute shot of her boy and dog:

Here's my first edit.

A little more rugged looking, some contrast and some burning. I like it, but I didn't think it would be creative enough to stand out from the tens of thousands of entries.

So here's my second edit. Done in between tending to kids. Probably spent too much time, but not enough time on this one if you know what I mean.

Then finally, the next day I got creative again and did this one. Used with a picture I had taken out at the orchard the other day.

And guess what?? Over 100,000 edits and this was one of 15 or so featured this morning on her blog. Very exciting! So I thought I'd share. You can go check out her blog here and see all of the really talented edits that went on. It truly is amazing what you can do with all of the editing tools out there these days!! I definitely don't consider myself an expert by ANY means, but it's fun to experiment sometimes to see what you CAN do.