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Stark

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At the end of my previous post, I showed an odd tree... very tall without branches, except at the top a rat's nest of tightly bunched twigs and cones. Futzing around in Lightroom with a shot of the top of the tree, I came across a fairly stark monochrome version that struck me as interesting enough to give it a try as a desktop background.

Prior to happening upon that, I had a “stylized” version that I sort of liked...

Stylized

I don't often venture into these non-realistic versions unless I'm doing something specific (such as this, this, this and this), but I often run into interesting results while testing my various Lightroom plugins: I sometimes need to quickly generate a version of a photo that is visually distinct from other copies I've tested with, so I'll haphazardly slap around the develop-setting sliders to create something wacky, like this, this, and this.

I've got a few such freaky/interesting items in my (way too long) to-post-about list.

For reference, here's the original...

Original