Taken on Greyledge Road outside of Buchanan, Virginia, after our first real snow of 2006. It doesn't get more "country" or rural than this shot of Purgatory Hollow... ;-)
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great colors and lighting, also the composition is nice,but
looks a bit oversharpened (i guess you first used usm to sharpen and then neat image to reduce noise but both a little too much for my taste)
only my two cents...
good luck
My eye keeps getting drawn to the cow on the left and what appears as a outline of white, expecially on the rear, does not look right to me. I like the capture and the content. Not really sure how you did that?
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