2/16 - Outdoor Wednesday #110

It is in the 30s today. The Chicagoland area is experiencing a February thaw. All I could see today was mud, puddles, black snow and grey skies Rain is expected tonight which would clean the area up. Decided to post an image taken when it was frigid cold and steam floated out of sewers making it look like fog.



Blizzard, February, 2011.
Copyright Joyce Meyer

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This shot was taken in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, May, 2008. I saw this lonely dead tree standing there among trees of every green color in the universe. Friday, I was looking at old files and wondered delete or keep this tree image. Perhaps if I worked with the picture, the ordinary could become extraordinary. So the process began. I cropped out everything, but the tree. Then I changed it from color to sepia. I didn’t think it popped enough. So, then I tried using different colors for a background and discovered that now it had the desired effect. Here is the finished result.