Visual Abyss

Its been really gloomy past few days. Sun was playing seek and hide with us, but today sun shined in all its glory. I wasn't expecting it to do so with weatherman predicting showers for today, so I slept longer. Only to wake up and find a perfectly lit bedroom with sun rays shining thorugh the window. Just couldn't help myself capturing the moment that I have seen many times but its worth to record for a bit longer. You may never know when you get to see this again.

This is from my old prosumer camera, which in its time was top of the line (but way down in features now). It has an ultra sharp leica lens with 20x zoom. Tpicture displayes all the colors of autumn in one place. Highlands (where I live) has quite a few majestic trees lined up next to the swimming pool. Fortunatley for me, all these trees are at different stages of coloring, you can find green to yellow to orange to deep red next to each other. I just stripped out a band from the original picture.

Trying my hands at selective coloring. The pic looked good in color as well, but selective coloring really makes the maple leaf stand out (click to see the larger version). The autumn is over here and winters have kicked in, such a sight is quite common these days. I am thinking of one more of such a pic, probably of a tree with red leaves on the road, with selective coloring. I wonder how would that look.

There is something that leaf and I have in common, I guess it makes this pic hold a different sort of value for me.