Winter's Last Gasp
Olympus OM-D EM-5, Two five-exposure HDR images stacked. Applied Topaz Simplify BuzSim effect, Nik Color Efex Pro 4 Infrared filter with Lighten blend mode applied in Photoshop CC to turn the ground, grass, and trees snow-like (and leave the sky unaffected), used Silver Efex Pro 2 on two separate layers to achieve desired black and white tonality, miscellaneous adjustments (hue/saturation, brightness, cloning).
entered DD Apr-15
Uploaded on March 28, 2015