I've ridden around on this thing for something well over 5,000 miles.
Editing includes desaturation, adjustments of levels to enhance tonal range, and the use of lightly grained duplicate layers: "soft grain" at 27%, normal blending, and "horizontal grain" at 15%, multiply blending.
I can't say I'm thoroughly happy with this picture. The focus was not as good as I wanted it to be, so I applied the Sharpen filter. That helped, but I didn't fix it. I would have liked to take the picture with a smaller aperture, but I just didn't have the time for it I would have liked. Ideally, I would like to place better than I did in the last challenge in which I participated (Wind), which was the 65th percentile, but I'm not counting on it.
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Place: 114 out of 243 Avg (all users): 5.1530 Avg (commenters): 7.5714 Avg (participants): 4.9160 Avg (non-participants): 5.3272 Views since voting: 934 Views during voting: 370 Votes: 281 Comments: 8 Favorites: 0
Composition: 7, Well placed and cropped subject.
Technical: 9, Good use of B/W with just enough detail.
Appeal: 9, I like this as it has grown on me since I first looked at it.
Challenge: 10
Overall Calculated Average Score: 9
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