This photo

is from County Con­nemara, Ire­land. With­out edit­ing, the photo is kind of bor­ing (trust me). But I was play­ing with the Curves adjust­ment in Pho­to­shop, and some­thing hap­pened with the foliage: parts of the for­est emerged as bright and sat­u­rated, while the rest fell dra­mat­i­cally into dark­ness. It was a very strik­ing effect. It took took some tweak­ing to make that effect work with­out dis­tort­ing the rest of the pic­ture, but I think the result is interesting.

By the way, while I accom­plished this manip­u­la­tion dig­i­tally, it’s not any­thing that couldn’t be done with film in the devel­op­ment process. So don’t get all purist on me.