Logs from a freshly felled tree stacked on open land not too far from where I live.
PP (all in PS/CS2 and ACR)
ACR: minor exposure tweaks
PS:
* contrast mask (copy layer, desat, invert, blur, overlay 61%)
* levels
* noise ninja
* resize for web
* usm
* 2 pixel black border
* save for web
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