150. Stone House Drowning in Color Purple

‘Lavander Fields’ - Plateau de Valensole, Provence, France
photo by Jabi Sanz
website - https://www.jabisanzphotography.com/
original image - https://www.jabisanzphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/DSC1333-HDR-Pano-1-Copy.jpg

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I read somewhere that the locals can't stand the photographers that shoot these fields, because there's so many of them, and the fields are a private property. And every photographer wants to have this particular stone house in the frame. Can't blame them, it does look beautiful.

I sharpened the bushes in foreground, as they were too much out of focus, and added a bit of warmth to the image.

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86. Wavesmashed

‘La Jument’ - La Jument lighthouse, Brittany, France
photo by Jean Guichard
website - https://www.jean-guichard.com/
original image - https://www.jean-guichard.com/sites/default/files/styles/max_2600x2600/public/photography/2019-08/a-8153.jpg

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Jean Guichard is probably the most famous lighthouse photographer, the most famous photo probably being this one. However, it doesn't work well as a wallpaper for me - it's too busy - so I chose the one above. That one was also a little too busy, so I reframed it to focus more on the lighthouse, and cut down on the chaos of the sea.

I also turned down the contrast to make the photo somewhat more painterly-looking, and cooled down and darkened the colors.

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38. Sunlit Teasels

Pointe du Raz, Brittany, France
photo by Markus Kapferer
website - http://www.grafixx.at/
original image - https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/france-bretagne-cap-sizun-pointe-du-raz-sunset-royalty-free-image/525466661
Windows 10 Spotlight version - https://windows10spotlight.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/9c290f76bd76ddaf0cb265bc314dded0.jpg

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Another photo where I used the Windows 10 Spotlight version as the starting point. They reframed the original image into the HD aspect ratio. I then reframed that into 16:10 aspect ratio. The resulting composition is somewhat zoomed-in in comparison to the original photo composition. I think it works better. The cliffs and the sea are not particularly interesting by themselves, and zoomed-in they are more abstract, with the attention being on the foreground teasels which are the most interesting part of the photo.

I saturated the colors a bit to bring out the yellow of the sun and teasels more (and the two small purple flowers amid the teasels) and sharpened the whole thing some more.

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