Profile of a Tree

I took this shot about a year ago but never liked it. I couldn't bring myself to delete the images so I just decided to process them. I used Photomatix 4.02 (Thanks Tom) then opened it in CS4 and put a dark edge on it. After that I opened it in Photoscape and put a vignette on it and used the reflection filter. Back to CS4 to give it a ripple effect in the 'water' and a blue hue with the rectangular marquee tool. I cropped it to get rid of most of the dark edge but that allowed me to enhance the 'shore line'. After all of that I was finally willing to share it. LYLE

Dead Tree at Big Bend

This is a scene in Zions National Park at a place called The Big Bend due to a big bend in the river as it goes around these rock formations. There must be some really big water flows here at certain times of the year. This is a 5 shot HDR that I massaged some in Photoshop to get it to be vibrant enough for me. LYLE