Before & After Edits in LightRoom 5

I just finished a pretty intensive 5-week editing workshop that I cannot recommend highly enough.  If you're familiar with all the basics of LightRoom and are looking to take your editing skills to the next level with a fantastic teacher, Caroline Jensen at Love Stands Still Photography, this is the course for you.  You can check it out HERE, and it runs again in March 2014.

Here is a sample of what I've been working on for the last month or so:

BEFORE (straight-out-of-camera, with skin tone corrections only):

AFTER:

BEFORE (straight-out-of-camera with crop):

AFTER:

BEFORE (straight-out-of-camera):

AFTER:

and for fun:

BEFORE (straight-out-of-camera):

AFTER:

BEFORE (straight-out-of-camera):

AFTER:

BEFORE: (colour edit)

AFTER:

BEFORE: (straight-out-of-camera but flipped)

AFTER:

Thanks for looking!