I am a lone tree.....

[Katy Noelle]

Thanks very much, Wendy and, thanks, Paul!

[wilgk]

If you are as old as me layers would make much more sense, as I still remmeber when...
under the tutelage of the "Infant Mistress" wearing her sensible brogues, her ribbed 240 denier stockings, with leather patches on the elbows of her cable stitch cardigan and her glasses at times resting upon her ample bosum.....oooh golly me I digress again (I blame Rob!)

any-way I remember when that self same Mistress taught us for art and we used to put a layer of some sort of arty paper 1 over the other and scribble over the top layer which would when peeled back reveal segments that we wanted to on the bottom layer...
I am sure there is an exact technical artistic terminology that I could use at this point....but where's the fun in that?

I still have an awful lot to learn (understatement of century) but remembering this real using paper technique, helped me to at least grasp the concept of what I want to learn...

There you see, another benefit of being closer to 50 than 40

[arith]

I think I caught it from you, Steve...

(um,....hi, Wendy!)

P.S. i don't want it to be B&W (edit: although, now, I have another whole idea about that...)

C&C extremely welcome. Thanks!

I'll start off....is there anything that I can do about the little bit of shadowy trees that you can see to the left in the background?

I think this is a really nice picture.

But I couldn't resist having a go using a Linear Light layer.

[Wirefox]

Steves edit does it for me. I think these type of shots need to be either stark or really dreamy. Previous edits and the original were somewhere between and that tends to look as if too much was being squeezed out of the PP.

[ScoutR]

I agree Steve (what a surprise) Arith's edit looks very natural, and I should know I spend a lot of time out in the mist, in fact I have been in a fog 90% of my life. The last edit really nails that claustraphobic dreamy foggy feeling. Very nice

Wendy

[arith]

Just figured it must be clearer near the floor and closer to the viewer, so I guessed how to do it. cheers Wendy and Steve

[JohnC]

I've been back and forth with these edits and it really comes down the fact that a photo or a painting for that matter is subjective-I like Jiro's cropped edit,it's taken away some of the tree shadow too that Wendy was addressing and now Steve's Linear Light Layer edit - two different moods here of course - the first I see as 'warmer' or rather not a harsh and the second (Steve's) very cold, even stark which also has it's appeal -depends on what Katy wanted to convey - looks like she has yet to see this last edit of Steve's .

Rob..Stravinski's Rite of Spring ?....superb.

[Katy Noelle]

SO! NOW! I'm sorry that I'm so late with my thank yous. And, really, thank you very much for the discussion. I think that I'm going to have to see where my ideas about all of your input finally settles. Good insight, Mr. F. Wirefox, regarding it not looking overprocessed - I hadn't thought of that. I wanted it to be ethereal but was absolutely fretting about losing the detail at the top of the tree. At the same time, though, I was wanting something surreal and dreamy. An illustration, perhaps? So, between all of your edits, I've learned a lot of what I can do and what to think about but, I think, Wendy's is the closest to my vision. Definitely a team effort! Thanks, all!

and, Rob, next time, I will try the different vantage - maybe, there was another break that I would have seen with just pure fog behind it if I had come down the road, again, looking for it! You're helping - I'll get there with these trees, yet!