Have not been back there in years.Had to look at the Google Sat. View to see where it was.I have a TOM TOM that works good, I think I'll go there this weekend.
How did you Process the image,I'm a sucker for B&W with some Color in it!.
By the way, did not look like a Junk to me.In fact, I did not see it before you said it was there ! Sometimes I look at the overall shot then have to go back and look at the real fine points.This smoke up here in SR is Bad!Playing with my eyes!
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peteh-
You are right about the smoke these days. California has a long summer ahead of it if it is burning this much in June.
Regarding my post approach, it is primarily three layers. For the base layer, I used the B&W filter to drain the color in a controlled way. Over that is a duplicate of that layer that I gave a fairly strong gaussian blur. That layer was set to normal mode, but had a layer mask that I painted on to selectively control the blur/depth of field. The third layer was my original color shot, slightly mucked with, colorwise, with a little bit of blur on a layer set for color blend. Other than that, I had a curves adjustment layer and that was pretty much it, from a technique standpoint. The sky had some nice elements that worked with the diagonal composition, but needed some help to give it a bit more detail in the upper region and a bit more color at the horizon, so there was a little more pixel pushing than just the three layers.
I don't like it particularly much when I see this reduced version in my browser window, even with color managed Safari and a web friendly sRGB profile. The original is in ProPhoto and much, much richer. I tried to compensate a little for how it displayed online, but did not get it as close as I would like. The consolation is that I printed it with my Z3100 at 36" wide on Photo Rag paper and really like it. The ironic part is that had I only seen this on LL, I'm not sure I would have felt enough to post a comment.
Thanks,
Ron