About the vignette...it looks really good on my desktop PC at home, where I do all of my editing. My personal laptop, which I didn't check before submitting (d'oh) has a lot of banding...my work laptop makes it look disgusting, almost like a tunnel. Is this calibration? Quality? who knows...
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I don't see any banding either. It's actually quite surprisingly smooth. I did notice that when I sit closer to my screen the vignette doesn't seem as overpowering as it does when I lean back in my chair. It's actually quite the optical illusion...
This is just beautiful. I am particularly fond of the vignette on this one, although I suspect others may not be. I wish the mottled artifacts weren't in the upper part of the sky, but they aren't extremely obvious and I can live with them. Bumping.
Very few photos in the challenge meet the challenge theme very well. This is a superb exception. Super photo. Thanks for showing us this winter horizon.