[Toad]

Cincinnati, Ohio

[Kombisaurus]

wow toad... that really works!
beautiful colour, and I love the light on the thingy.. you know.. the thingy on legs with the bendy thingy

[Petographer]

Great lines Toad. Again, good eye.

[Don Schaeffer]

Are all you guys going daft? Photos of small random features of the environment! Unheard of.

Anyway this is a nice shot.

[Irma]

As always your pictures are a lesson to me about composition and color.
Your post procesing is also wonderful...
Splendid picture and work Toad...

[Toad]

Thanks to everybody for your kind words!

Irma: my color post-processing is the result of playing individually with the 3 color channels of the photo. I select the "channels" palette and apply curves to each of the 3 color channels independently. In this mode, you are working with B&W images. I modify the curve of each channel until I like the tone and contrast of each B&W image. When I switch back to the normal 3 channel color view - sometimes the results are extraordinary.

Not always - like all techniques - it is trial and error. This doesn't work very well in any photo where realistic color is required.

[Irma]

Thanks Toad.. I just worked with one picture of a sunrise and I worked beautifully.

[slejhamer]

Cool photo.

I'm waiting for Dick Van Dyke to dance through with a broom.