63. Morning Dew

‘Misty Morning in the Field’ - Pomorskie Province, Kashubia District, Poland
photo by Mateusz Liberra
website - https://windows10spotlight.com/images/63c9dfb46805c3d85f6ce8cb7ae5a918/
original image - https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/morning-light-pomorskie-province-north-poland-191734904
Windows 10 Spotlight version - https://windows10spotlight.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/63c9dfb46805c3d85f6ce8cb7ae5a918.jpg

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Yet another photo where I used the Windows 10 Spotlight version as the starting point, as I think they did a good job of reframing it. I took it a bit further and got rid of the sun. I think it was too close to the edge of the frame, and was actually drawing the eye out of the photo. The level of detail here is pretty amazing, especially the dew on the spider webs in the foreground.

I enhanced that even more by upping the sharpness. Other than that, I did practically nothing here.

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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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21. Just a Meadow

‘English Meadow in May’ - Bedfordshire, England, UK
photo by Craig Sweetman
website - https://www.flickr.com/photos/186801162@N04/
original image - https://i.redd.it/5q9clond4hz61.jpg

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Another one by Craig Sweetman, and this one is a good example of why I like his photos. It's just a simple meadow, but the lighting and the atmosphere are so nice that they really draw you in. Light, airy, beautiful colors.

I did absolutely nothing to this. Well, except remove the signature, because I don't want distracting elements on the wallpaper. Sorry about that, but I try to make up by giving full credit in all the posts, and all the files have credit in the filename.

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19. Cloudfall

Tindhólmur islet in Faroe Islands, Denmark
photo by Andrija Ilic
website - https://www.instagram.com/andrija_ilic_images/
original image - https://i.redd.it/4ql3xxkay0y71.jpg

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Nice atmospheric photo. Unfortunatelly, it works better in a portrait format than landscape, which turns it mostly into texture. So I added in the motor glider as a point of interest. I also added in some clouds in the top right corner, because the sky there was just a dull grayish-blue triangle.

As far as processing goes, I just upped the light.

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