[Zig]

As well as piccy-taking, making music and other stuff, I also maintain a few gardens. Some of them are quite large, and one of my clients has a full-size tennis court on one of their lawns that does not look out of place, so I'm not short of things to do most of the year.

This is one of them, taken the other day with the 16-35, at 16mm and f22. I've left it uncropped and just as composed through the viewfinder.
1. raw conversion to a mono tiff;
2.Contrast-masked by duplicating as a layer, inverting, gaussian blur at max, then blending back in with the layer set to Overlay.
3. Dodged and burned selectively;
4.Duplicated as another layer; sepia-toned the layer, converted to 8bit, added diffuse glow, blended in this layer; flattened.

[Irma]

I wouldn't imagine you like gardening, Zig!

This is a very big garden = lots of work.

I used to work more in my garden, but I lost a bit of my interest when I started taking pictures.

[Zig]

I don't like doing my own, Irma!