An early fall walk though a nearby park to capture the colors of the season. I wanted to have the path draw the viewer into the forest and experience the peacefulness of a quite day in the woods. Processed in Lightroom to crop and straighten, then added a Topaz Impression layer in Photoshop.
Where I live, there is just too much light pollution on all the horizons. The only place I can get a decent night photo is straight up. I had been taking some test shots earlier in the week of trees arching above me and thought that I could use those same leading lines to do something interesting with the night sky. I positioned the camera between 4 trees and put an interesting star in between their top branches. I wanted this photo to use the trees to give the feeling that they were holding up the sky. I wanted the viewer to be drawn to the galaxy in the middle. Processed in Lightroom for color correction and exposure.
