Winter's End

Melodrama with Trees

The temperature went up and the sun came out and the birds started singing today.  Winter is ending.

The scene on the left was nowhere near as dramatic as I made it... But the wonders of digital manipulation is too damn tempting.  I can see where people just hammer away at one  image  until their mouse falls apart.

The must to avoid in this situation is what I call the spin art syndrome.  Wherein one lets the machine do the work - some photoshop filters actually have icons of dice, allowing one to go for random effects.  All I knows is that I try to wrench as much form the image as possible, and doing so in as thoughtful a manner as I can.