183. Livin' on a Prayer

Seceda, Dolomites, South Tyrol, Italy
photo by Daniel Francis
website - https://www.flickr.com/photos/d2francis2/
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Coz we're half way there. This is the 183rd wallpaper. Exactly half way through the year. And this one is fitting, because a photo of this particular place - Seceda in Italy - made me waant to start collecting landscapes. Here is the photo. Technically, it's pretty bad, but the atmosphere is something else. So I wanted a similar, but higher quality photo of this cliff, during a cloud inversion. Easier said than done. I finally found one I almost liked, but it was shot during a very sunny day, with too much glare for my taste. So I decided to make it more moody, and here's the result.

I turned the sky stormy, and tried to make it look like there is a hole in the clouds somewhere off-screen through which the sky shines onto the green plateau. You be the judge if I succeeded (had to really hold myself back not to make a really bad pun here. But now you have it in your mind anyway, don't you?)

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66. A Long Way Down

Seceda, Dolomites, South Tyrol, Northern Italy
photo by Torsten Mühlbacher
website - https://www.instagram.com/clickpix_eu/
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There was a guy (I think) at the top of the cliff. I replaced him with a girl, and added an ominous flock of birds for a more forlorn atmosphere. There is an unsettling psychological phenomenon called 'Call of the Void,' where you feel like jumping into the abyss when you stand above it. If there is any place you would feel it, I'd say this is it.

Other than that, I fixed the contrasts, and cooled down the colors.

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