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Ice, Snow and Water

Ice, Snow and Water 186
Ice, Snow and Water 186 - Black & White images taken in Hibernia park, Chester County, during 14°F/-10°C weather.

A revisit of some recently Posted images, but moved into a Black and White presentation.

Ice, Snow and Water 189 – Black & White images taken in Hibernia park, Chester County, during 14°F/-10°C weather.
Ice, Snow and Water 098 – Black & White images taken in Hibernia park, Chester County, during 14°F/-10°C weather.
Ice, Snow and Water 055 – Black & White images taken in Hibernia park, Chester County, during 14°F/-10°C weather.
Ice, Snow and Water 186 – Black & White images taken in Hibernia park, Chester County, during 14°F/-10°C weather.
Ice, Snow and Water 083 – Black & White images taken in Hibernia park, Chester County, during 14°F/-10°C weather.
Ice, Snow and Water 029 – Black & White images taken in Hibernia park, Chester County, during 14°F/-10°C weather.

What do you think?

Please leave your thoughts below in the comments!

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Stylized Hay Bales

Folks that live in Chester County, or anywhere hay is harvested, have seen bale after bale just lying in fields.

So on this rainy day, I decided to take a second look at some of my images in my collection…

Long Sides
Side View
Between the rows
Hay Bales & Grasshopper

I am going to have to keep this technique in mind for future use!

If you are interested in how I processed these images, please let me know!

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Stroud Preserve Springtime in B&W

Some images taken during a recent spring time walk around Stroud Preserve.

All images were shot in ‘traditional’ HDR bracket fashion, and processed into a ‘raw’ combined HDR file.

Normally, I use Adobe Photoshop to do my B&W conversion, but since the Google/Nik Software upgrade, I now had a chance to play with Silver Efex Pro 2.

Trails 02
A pond waterfall
Hay pillows
Trails 03
Trails 01
Fields & Clouds
Which way?

Photoshop is great for doing a straight conversion via the native B&W menu, but to explore other options, quickly, and then build on them, Silver Efex Pro is the answer.

I still used Photoshop to tweak the final files, but I ended up in a different place than I originally envisioned.

So, what do you think?

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