Thursday, December 22, 2011

Beach Grasses in December (Digital Woodcut)

It was warm today, fifty degrees! This is unusual weather in December, here north of Boston. We couldn't pass up a chance to take a walk at the beach so we went to a little beach-front park. There is always a lot to see, but today I was struck by the winter light on the beach grasses. I took lots of pictures. I edited them tonight, and although this looks like a simple image, it was fairly difficult to get. I did a lot of cropping and discarding until I arrived at this composition. Then I used Painter to do a little bit of clean up, and then applied the "woodcut" effect to emphasize the texture of the grasses.

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