Having flown planes, I naturally chose this as my subject for the Wings challenge.
Original capture was ever so slightly askew so I did a free rotate to level the tail with the horizon. Elminated some smudges in the sky but the sky was so drab and the grass so dried up and brown looking I decided to switch it to grayscale and added a 70% black feathered layer. This highlighted the wings and got rid of the drab areas. Overall sharpening was done at a very low pressure to accentuate detail. Levels and contrast. Cropping was done twice, second crop eliminated sky area to raise the focal point up to where it belonged.
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