LR: Increased clarity and lightened shadows to try to bring out some more details. Adjusted exposure, crop, and rotation.
Since this was an iphone shot I didn't get the shallow DOF that I though it needed. So I opened in PS - selected the foreground area and isolated it on a foreground layer. On the layer below, applied a gausian blur and masked it with a gradient mask so that the blurriest part remained in the distance. Cloned out spots I didn't like, dodged and burned to add impact of foreground. Nik output sharpener. Size / save for web.
This ribbon took me completely by surprise. I did actually put more time into this one than I have been on recent challenges. I knew I wanted to set something up near my work where things are somewhat abandoned ... Thanks for all the comments and votes =)
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