This wonderful pillar of a tree live only a few blocks from me. It's really quite cool how it towers above everything around it, even the nearby buildings (now that the tall one has been demolished). What's really cool is how it waited until most of the other trees around had lost their colors to really shine, and light up the landscape.
Post Processing
* Chromatic Aberration
* Combine 3 exposures in Nik HDR Efex Pro
* Remove lens vignette and some blurred foreground grass blades
* Increase exposure
* Decrease brightness
* Decrease contrast
* Increase saturation and vibrancy
* S-curve
* Highlights
* Increase red/orange saturation
* Decrease blue/green/purple saturation
* Desaturate clouds
* Topaz DeNoise
* Decrease brightness
* Highlights and shadows
* Slight vignette
* Halo reduction around tree and background trees
* Export as TIFF
* Resize
* Sharpen Edges
* Save as JPEG
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Great image. Love the very low horizon with the all sky background and shape of the large tree. Also the way the large tree dwarf's all the other little trees.
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