Looking Up at Red Tree (Modified and Posterized)

Looking Up at Red Tree (Modified and Posterized) Originally uploaded by randubnick

During a recent walk, I saw this tree at the top of a steep hill. The colors were amazing, and I stopped to take a picture (and to catch my breath). There were a couple of heavy telephone wires running in front of the tree, and there was really no way to take a photo of the whole tree without those wires. But the tree was too gorgeous to pass up, so I took the picture anyway. Tonight I opened the image in Painter IX and used digital pastel to cover up the heavy wires, and then posterized the image.