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Comment by Sonifo:
I often want to stop as I am driving long hours to take pictures of the shiny snow where I love. I love the different textures it has when the sun hits it just right.

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Comment by bucket:
almost like magnified hairs on a giant's leg...lovely!

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Comment by trevytrev:
Very nice! The glare and the tone really do add to the illusion that this is an ocean shot.

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Comment by e301:
Austerely beautiful image. One of very few genuinely striking images int his month's lot. Bravo.

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Comment by tnun:
Like the previous one better - shows the horizon.

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Comment by tnun:
Oh, makes me want to say Where are you?

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Comment by tnun:
Rather like the oddness of the water, and the smoke above it. And you have flying water birds too. Not sure about the line of shrubbery. I think you should play a little more with this scene/these textures.

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Comment by Ken:
The B&W is great on this; really nice job on getting it to look like this. I don't know if it's from the overall processing or output sharpening, but I see a bit of haloing around the edges of trees. Or maybe it's just jpg issues, not sure.

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Comment by undieyatch:

Originally posted by twmax: One question for you: Why did you move out of Lightroom into Photoshop to do your black and white conversion? I think they are identical, aren't they?

My reference to my conversion steps is really only a rough outline. Although I like to convert to b&w in Lightroom sometimes, once the picture is transfered to photoshop I have difficulty adjusting tonality and am left with little more than contrast to work with - for this picture I delayed conversion for more control of saturation tonality in layers especially in relation to gradient map. There are really many subtle, intuitive ways to work with b&w. I wanted to mention primary steps, as I found them effective for this picture.

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Comment by twmax:
Like everyone else, I mistook this for a wide angle shot of the ocean. Very interesting. One question for you: Why did you move out of Lightroom into Photoshop to do your black and white conversion? I think they are identical, aren't they?