autofantasia's photos with the keyword: forest

Happy Halloween!

Another one taken recently at Newby Hall in North Yorkshire. I was admiring one of the many large conifers when I spotted this intruder, which appeared to have spotted an opportunity to take up residence in the upper canopy. Ran it through the 'processing room' to try and emphasise the small, but beautiful stowaway, which I hope you'll enjoy seeing as much as I did. Please view on black for best effect.

Well, we had the angry tree, so I guess this is the happy tree! The central character was crafted from a shot I took a while back of some carved wood. To get to this stage it's been modified in many ways ... 'orbified', mirrored, etc. As for the background. that was based on a shot I posted a while back of some autumnal leaves.

Simple, as one of my friends here on ipernity said recently, it's time for another orb. Both the sphere and the background in this one were crafted from some of the shots I took recently of pine cones. Best appreciated full screen, so please hit z if you have time to spare.

Here's another shot I took whilst walking around a local wood trying to find inspiration for this week's Sunday Challenge , which had the theme of abstract nature . Must admit as interesting as the textures were on the tree to start with this one has had some post processing done to emphasise the sense of the abstract. Hit z to view large for best effect. You'll find a copy of the original SOOC shot in the Notes.

For this week's Sunday Challenge , for which the theme is abstract in nature . I spent some time earlier in the week walking around a local wood looking for things to shoot, which is where I collected these freshly dropped pine cones. And although some of the shots I took out and about were okay I eventually decided to create an image in my back garden using the pine cones. Fairly minimal processing on this one overall apart from tweaking the levels and a smidgen of sharpening.