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The original is 'Fertility' by Akeraios, offered as a post-processing project.

I liked the freshness of the scene and tried to keep that as far as possible. This version is no more than a bit of applied colouring in Photoshop CS5, though I also cloned out a small pole. The lens flare was added to increase the impression of bright sunlight coming in through the trees.

I compared Unsharp Mask and a High Pass sharpening layer... Unsharp Mask (at the settings I had it) seemed gentler, leaving the softer parts of the picture so that they didn't get jagged.

Many thanks to Hannah for firing up the post-processing thread again; I enjoyed this a lot!