January 22 -- color in the back yard

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I picked up after the dog on our walk, and then picked up after him in the back yard when we got home.

The leaves which have blown up against the back of the garage have more color than I would have expected for this time of year. Yellows and oranges, along with the browns.



A touch of red and some greens and blues, too -- let's give them a bit of encouragement...........

Saturated (enhance/hue-saturation/saturation slider pushed) and posteredged (filters/artistic/poster edges).



Tighter crop. Love the curly bits on the edge of the yellow leaf, the red stem, the blue of the other leaf.....



Different tight crop of the same crop as the second image above, with the saturation pushed even higher.





New original.





Saturated and posteredged.





Cropped.





Different crop.





One of the things I loooooove about doing this is the ability to "what if?" until the cows come home, WITHOUT any damage to what I've already got! !!! It's trivial to back out of something I don't like (and revert to what I had before), which you just can't do in most other media.

I'm convinced that, aside from happening to get an excellent capture in the first place, I get my most interesting and satisfying images when I go after those "what if I try [whatever]s."

They don't always work (of course!), but the experimentation is what gets me there.

And I'm much more likely to experiment in this medium, knowing I won't be trashing what I've already done....................



Ok. Another original.





Upper left corner, cropped, saturated, posteredged.





Lower right corner (ditto).





One last leaf.

You can tell it's been a long time since this snow fell, and you can tell that it's been pretty warm.

Not sure I've seen exactly this before.

The leaf (and its stem) have melted right down below the surface of the snow.....



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