[matthew]

That has a really nice ink-drawing look to it. The square crop suits it nicely.

[Irma]

Trying new things with this picture from my village that you know already... This time with a night view..

Two pictures the moon and the village. Worked the night feeling with gradient, painted the windows with yellow. Unfortunately my last step in the post processing had to be done with the plastic doll plug in to make it kind of painting and with the idea of remove a bit of detail. I really don't know if I should make it a bit brighter to see more of the village, but on the other hand it is a night view and I think that it would look funny making it brighter.

Anyway here is my try...

[Toad]

I always love night shots - whether real or fake - I do a lot of both. Well done. The moon is unnaturally big, but I think it looks great in this shot.

[Irma]

Thanks so much for your comment Toad...

You are right about the moon, and I am happy you liked it so big... I have to say that it was intended...

I don't know if I am working right the idea of placing things in my manipulations that are not coherent in real life. Maybe it is like trying to say... Please take it as a made up image... Many people know my work and like my pictures, and many of them don't accept too much my manipulations. They like to see true facts, things. I understand and respect the idea, but I don't want to constrain my work only under those lines, specially when I like to do something else with my pictures like this kind of manipulation.

Some other people think that you manipulate your pictures to hide your mistakes in photography, or to do in the computer what you couldn't do with your camera and how wrong they are... A good manipulation always starts with a good picture, IMO.