Composed by Abel Meeropol (aka Lewis Allan)
Originally sung by: Billie Holiday
Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.
Pastoral scene of the gallant South,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh!
Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.
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-Handheld, manual mode
-Create mask for shoes
-RGB Curve to shoes through mask
-RGB and Blue/Yellow Curves to background through inverted mask
-Crop
-Clone out a couple of "spots" and stray remnant of wire
-Resize
-Create oval feathered mask
-RGB Curve through mask to vignette corners
-USM at 66%/0.6 dia/TH = 5
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 10/10 = 256KB
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I was one of your two 7s......I *almost* did this myself, 'cause I know where there's a pair like this, but I ran outta time so I did a quick throwdown of my boots on the roof of the car. The voters are NUTS!!! LOL!!!
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