Apple Tree at Long Hill (Edited and Posterized Photo)

Here's another photo from last week's trip to see apple trees at Long Hill Gardens, here in Beverly, MA. It was exciting to see all the apples, and so I took a lot of pictures. I cropped this image out of a larger photo because I liked the way the apples are clustered together on the branch. When I got the image into my computer, I could see that the leaves had been munched on -- and so had the apples! But I decided to try to salvage the image anyway. I used Painter's digital pastel to do some cleanup, and when I was finally finished, did some selective posterizing. This took longer than I wanted it to, but I think it was worth it. I might try to paint this as part of my "branches" series.