Winter is coming

-or- Frozen days ahead

So I was playing around with some manipulation of some old photos I took of the results of an ice storm we had a couple years ago. And I was pretty pleased with the artistic effects I was able to pull off. Enjoy.



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Those are really cool. Nice job. Makes me look forward to winter.

-A.
Reply #2 Top
Very pretty dev. I sort of miss winter here.
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Those are cool.....I'm looking forward to a milder winter here this year!  I can live without 10 feet drifts and sub zero temps....


(I'll post some pics of my experience last winter)

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I was pretty pleased with how they turned out. I think they would have looked a lot better if I actually had a decent digital camera, but I was just using my cheepo Walmart one. It doesn't focus that well and isn't at a very high resolution. To be honest, that was the main reason I started playing around with the photos. Alone they looked a bit blurry and not too rich in color, so I tweaked them to make them look "artistic" and hide their many flaws.

It was a really stunning effect though. Everything everywhere had a solid 1/8-1/4 inch layer of ice encasing it. Every leaf, every seed, every inch of the road and cars as well. Power was out for a long time thanks to that storm. It was an experience I will never forget.
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Wow beautiful pics!
I've never seen the snow or been in any temperature that has caused anything like that. Ill get to see the snow oneday!
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I wish it would snow around here. I feel I'm living in the wrong part of the world, I like to live in someplace with colder climate, maybe somewhere in Sweden or Finland.
Reply #7 Top
Raven--Where are you again? I am drawing a blank.

I like a nice 4 season climate. Guatemala only had 2, summer (meaning hot and dry) and winter (meaning hot and soaking wet). I really missed a decent winter after a couple years of that.
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I'm from that busy island city in Southeast asia, Singapore.