Sweet

My sweet daughter Sierra. walking on the beach near her college in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Sunset created a mauve glow in the northern sky as I was leaving work today with the naked trees traced delicately against it. Pencil Sketch simplified the silhouettes; then I applied a gradient based on the original colors behind it to create what looks like a woodprint.

We were waiting for our dinner guests to arrive when I looked out the window and saw this light in the western sky. The preternatural wind on Halloween tore the last leaves off the trees, so they are now November-bare. The sky behind them was suffused with this soft mauve light. An image this start doesn't give most filters much to work with, so I went played with some of the ones that create more radical effects. Neon Glow resulted in a rather striking effect almost like a negative.