Pile of Leaves

A rather uninspiring weekend over all. But, prior to the weekend, after work on Friday night, I'd taken a few minutes to walk around the place I work to see what might be interesting... which is where this shot comes from.

I expect that I'll regret posting this picture in the end, as it's a bit gimicky. But I did spend a fair bit of time working on it as I wanted to try out the collage technique, mostly because it uses masks, which is something in Photoshop that I seem to be having trouble getting a handle on, so I guess from the time investment point-of-view it's worth posting.

Anyway, if you haven't already figured it out, it's single picture with picture frames added - if you follow the tree branches or trunks you'll see that they all line up. Normally such an image is presented on a monotone background, but I decided to leave the rest of the picture partly visible as I thought in this case it helps with the effect.

Let me know what you think - good or bad; there have been far too few comments lately. Which, I'll admist, is largely my fault as I haven't been posting regularly, but it'd be nice to know that there are still people out there.

[Note: I re-edited this image and swapped the new version in on Monday evening - I'd finally figured out why it hadn't turned out quite as sharp as I'd expected.]

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