Processed from RAW in ACR and CS3. Blur is natural lensbaby blur. Very little processing. Not a B/W conversion, it was a colorless day and it was snowing at the time. Sharpening and levels, an "apply image" layer in soft light mode, resize and border.
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You've posted a lot of bleak and desolate shots in winter.This one gets movement form the blur and thats very nice. But perhaps it is more aptly titled stopping by woods... a bleak and desolate Frost poem, Still and icy, introspective and pensive.
This was one of my top rated images in the challenge. Beautiful snow-covered trees, I would like to be that person on the road enjoying the quiet solitude.
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FANTASTIC!! Fantastic in both the "great" sense and the "fantasy" sense. A dreamlike, cold winterscape, given depth/surreality by the focal range and meaning/significance by the tiny figure in the distance.
Crikey bear, you've lost some weight! Or maybe you're further away than I first thought. Or maybe I just read it all wrong and you have a very tiny assistant now.
LOL, that's just a person who wandered out of the woods and turned around to wait for his wife/girlfriend. He's about 100 yards away.
Crikey bear, you've lost some weight! Or maybe you're further away than I first thought. Or maybe I just read it all wrong and you have a very tiny assistant now.
From a LB point of view, it's interesting how the focus is neither 'here' nor 'there', but right in between. That seems just right for the shot.
Doesn't make it 'pop' but makes it 'crackle' instead, which also seems right of course.
I love the blur! Looks very nice with the border and the black and white, too. The person at the end of the road adds the perfect touch - the shot wouldn't be as good without him, imho. :)
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