Promise of things to come

Fall is here, but we have small bits of promises that spring will return.

The dogwood berries

The original lacked good composition. I love dogwood trees and so I guess I just wanted to take a picture of a barren one. . . I knew the red berries would stand out in a photo, but I sure didn’t compose the shot very well. So, I cropped for that. I used an adjustment brush to sharpen the berries and keep the rest of the picture out of focus. I adjusted the green levels to get them to a hue I preferred. I then ran a preset over everything. Here’s the original:

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