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- tree - |or how winter paints a different picture every hour

Winter . . . one of the reasons why I like Latvia.
That is . . . if you get them.
When I first came here . . . winters seemed normal . . . -20 . . .lot of snow . . . but for the last couple of years it was rare . . . part of the global dimming I guess . . . we're particularly hard hit with min. 30 % more clouds . . .

This tree is not far from where I live . . . I took the shot through the window :) . . . and it changes it's appearance by the minute sometimes.
It's a beautiful old tree . . . trees do not get the change to get old anymore . . . they become rare . . .
I have taken so many photo's of this tree . . . the mist could come in 20 minutes . . . and the tree would be gone . . . it could go in 5 minutes . . . the light changes by the minute . . . it's better than any movie on TV!

Fotka - one more thought - this is a shot from my 'back garden' - I have seen many on TE . . . what is the purpose of a travelsite if people start uploading photo's of their back garden? . . . is TE a travel site? . . . or is it a photosite? . . . or a social site? . . . or a blog site?
Is it useful to show you a Latvian winter? . . . we love it :) . . . look at the page of Latvia and see how many wonter shots were posted . . . we missed it! . . .

PE2;
crop, resize to 1800, unsharpmask, resize to 1400, sharpen, resize to 1050, unsharpmask, resize to 700, unsharpmask, added border and text. unsharpmask; 50%, 0,4 and 60.

About the post-processing;
. . . the photo needs a soft feeling, sharpening removes this so I used the minimum unsharpmask, with the original on the other screen to match both.

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