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Really, really well done on those aspects of post-sweetening. I like them a lot.
Think I need to digest this one for a bit.
You have created some additional intrigue with the placement of the three tree trunks, but initially upon first viewing ... I find myself trying to peek around them.
It is a mood filled image, without doubt.
The light play you captured is stunning and draws you into your image here immediately.
Perhaps, and as a suggestion only ... not sure which image editing program you do have ... but, some ... some use of the Burn tool would lessen the areas of the focal point.
Artistic licence? I can respect that, of course.
Wow ... some incredible images as of late that you are gracing us with. Very creative and fresh ... it's a good good thing in my books.
It does look like a magical forest! I absolutely love the beautiful lighting. It's a great scene, although the overblown hightlights in the middle are a distraction. I had a thought while viewing it: maybe this kind of IR will become the new classic sepia. :)
Good thought on Josette's part about this becoming the new classic sepia look. I think it certainly has its place and done as well as this it deserves all the acclaim that it's given. Lovely work, Jan. :)
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You will be led to the knowledge of the internal things which are invisible to you, by the external things which you see before you. . . . Even so then, we can represent to ourselves in thought the Author of all that is, by contemplating and admiring the (visible) things which He has made, and ever brings into being.
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