Don’t judge me because of my lines and curves and wrinkles. There’s a wisdom that comes with them. Relax under my canopy and I will teach you.

I definitely envisioned this in black and white when I took the picture. So I changed it to black and white and adjusted the different levels to get a look that I like. I used a radial filter to decrease the clarity of the outer oval of the picture, to draw focus more into the middle of the picture. The original:
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