48. Purple Heather, Purple Sky

‘Mystery Morning’ - Heather fields near Hilversum, North Holland, Netherlands
photo by Albert Dros
website - https://www.albertdros.com/
original image - https://i.redd.it/66hlnugoyb611.jpg

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Moody. I'll take it. I reframed the photo a bit - i think the tree looks better like this than dead center. More dynamic. I also added the crescent moon, hopefully oriented properly to where I think the sun is. I did it because there is another photo from the same series - Purple Dutch - that had the moon in it that I liked, so this is a case of having your cake and eating it, too.

Other than that, I darkened the image a bit, as I usually do.

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46. Simplicity

’Twilight Hours Around the Great Lakes’ - Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness, Lake Michigan, Michigan, USA
photo by Two-Snap
website - N/A, was https://www.reddit.com/user/Two-Snap
original image - https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjcgmW2QZQw-eLj-EPrXMhuQnFERkKk9vIUtC553vs4Ow_9B74-KEUoeCAIOur3a4-xwDwHt7cuy7hd8GyFZc4vbGGovYuj3EpZ1NMsOmfHim-x4HJZbDYQeILUIYp1HsihQxidka1rxC1uBQzT2Ib-xb0x4rmPDM3K-_H0zRi3TQQFkcB4T4jlKXBMNw=s1800

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A photo by the reddit user Two-Snap, who appears to have deleted his or her account in the meantime, so I can't link to the source. I don't even know what I am looking up (Burnt wood in the desert? How does that happen?), but I like the simplicity of the composition, with clearly defined foreground and background. And the crescent moon is in just the right place. It's a pity that the wavy sand got cropped out for the landscape version.

I left everything as is because the colors were quite elegant and the contrast is nice, I only upped the sharpness somewhat.

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33. Crescent Moon, Clear Sky

‘Sun Rises in the Valley’ - Saint Mary Lake, Glacier National Park, Montana, USA
photo by Tanmay Sapkal
website - https://tanmaysapkal.com/
original image - https://i.redd.it/8d502pm4hxg41.jpg

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I find this to be very calming, and I like the two-color scheme. The crescent and the bush are nice points of interest. I had to reframe the photo since it was a portrait, but here I actually like the landscape version more - it got rid of unnecessary detail. I don't find the underwater rocks that were in the foreground that interesting

I darkened the image somewhat because it works better as a wallpaper for me that way. As a bonus, that also brings out the fog above the lake.

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