Footpath in Lennox Forest just north of Glasgow, Lennoxtown, Scotland, UK
photo by Brant Adam
website - https://www.instagram.com/brantadamphotography/
original image - https://www.instagram.com/p/BPu29gYD1YU/
Windows 10 Spotlight version - https://windows10spotlight.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/1a6e1389adac0b89c26c06bac0e0b27c.jpg
This was a wallpaper served up to me by Windows 10 Spotlight. They don’t give any credit, so I had to dig out the author.
One thing I’ll give to whoever is behind the Spotlight photos - while they often cross the line to kitschy with their photo editing, they just as often bring new life to photos, and this is a good example of the latter. In its original form I would have probably skipped this photo as rather mundane, but somebody there noticed it had potential, and did quite a good job at color design and reframing. Bringing the red leaves into focus was a right thing to do. So I used the Spotlight image (rather than the original photo) as a starting point for my edit. I didn’t do much of anything - just sharpened and brightened the image a bit - it was a tad to dark for my taste, which is unusual. See below.
