Hard living

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Description

When I saw this, for some reason I was struck by what a hard life some desert vegetation leads.

There’s some banding in the sky in the compressed version that isn’t there in the original.

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Any comments would be welcome.

Technical Details

ISO 100, 108mm, f/11, 1/125th sec., canon 60D converted for infrared. Minimal processing. I just tweaked the tones and added some contrast.

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Wonderful!! Evokes a stormy day with spooky light, but with IR it might have been a ordinary sky??? Who knows, or cares. The final result is wonderful! And the dead branches leading to the LL corner are a great feature, as is the sprinkle of lighter leaves in the LL. Well seen and presented!

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Thanks, Diane. :slight_smile:

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Wonderful IR image Don! The dark moody sky and the direct light on the desert landscape are very dramatic looking; kind of like something you might get right before a storm. the dead branches are another great element in the scene as @Diane_Miller already mentioned. Beautifully done.

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Thanks, Ed. The dead branches were part of what drew me to this.