80. They Pulled Out My Teeth!

Fairy Glen, Uig, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
photo by Johannes Dittrich
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I already posted another photo of the Fairy Glen. It had some nice stone spirals in the foreground. The spirals are visibe in this one, too, but curiously, there are no stones. They have been pulled out. So I decided to investigate, and it appears that the stone spirals are the creation of tourists, who just think that the place called 'Fairy Glen' has to have them. The locals don't like them, and remove them regularly.

This photo, beautiful as it is, unfortunately had some quite bad halos at the horizon, so I cleaned that up. It is actually possible that this wasn't the original sky, and that the halos were the result of the sky replacement, but I can't really tell.

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61. Fairytale

Fairy Glen, Uig, Isle of Skye, Scotland, UK
photo by Jean Claude Castor
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A magical place. But then, most of the Isle of Skye is.

This image was heavily over-processed. So, of course I processed it some more. The grass was almost monochrome, the sky lost all depth, and the clouds looked almost solid. So I did what I could to bring it back to life, but the sky I thought was beyond saving. So I replaced it with something I found appropriate, and I like the purple-yellow-green combo.

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