Tiny rotation and crop; bunch of fiddles with gamma, convert to greyscale, hit sepia, then upped saturation. (Irfanview). No idea what I was doing, no idea what is a duotone in this context. And this title was just a bit less sappy than others I could think of.
Hope someone likes it is all.
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Must say thanks for voting and commenting. Even by my peculiar standards this challenge was full of astonishing images, so my low scores, tho impressive, are not surprising; the high scores are.
Note: this is a negative primarily because it brought out stuff in the sky; not sure about the colour - I had a blue version but it had a lot of green in it, so to be "safe" I hit the sepia button - apparently not safe enough.
This is interesting. The problem for my eye is that the branch has too little detail, seems blown out. I wonder if this was achieved by a flash. imo, more natural light would have been better.