The point of this photo is that from this particular angle the trunk of the willow looks like a curvy woman (baby's got back!) with her arms in the air. It's really obvious to me, and I hope voters can see it too.
A second title I almost used referred to the myth of Daphne fleeing Apollo when she turned into a tree. But I thought it was safer to use a more general one.
ETA -- it would seem voters did not see the woman at all. I should have called it "This tree is shaped like a woman." Oh well, lesson learned. I really thought that would be communicated.
Adjusted levels and color saturation and resized to 640 wide. USM.
Had to bump it down to around 60% quality to get it under 150K! I guess there's just so much little detail in all those little leaves -- I've never had quality reduced nearly that much before. This hurt my score too. It so much better in the uncompressed original.
Some outtakes:
Statistics
Place: 409 out of 507 Avg (all users): 4.9875 Avg (commenters): 5.1667 Avg (participants): 4.8610 Avg (non-participants): 5.4340 Views since voting: 1081 Views during voting: 328 Votes: 240 Comments: 6 Favorites: 1 (view)
you seem to have some purple fringing ( chromatic aberration ) which is a real shame, too much contrast between the branches & sky. But i like the way the leaves are illuminated which i guess is the look you were going for.
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
Photographer found comment helpful.
