Jann and I returned to Mill Road in Lebanon yesterday for a short walk. What a difference a week made from our earlier visit. Winter is moving in and ice is forming on sticks and downed trees in the Mascoma River. Small streams flowing in are now mostly frozen over.
The water that splashes up onto partly-submerged logs and branches freezes and forms interesting patterns aided by the wind and gravity. Here are two examples, the second one rendered in grayscale. The very best grayscale conversions start as color images because one can then use the color information in the photo to control the distribution of tones in the image. However, if the original image has few colors, as did this one, the options are somewhat limited. Still some images seem to look better in black-and-white, and I felt this was one that did.
On our return trip Jann spotted an interesting formation just down the bank that we had missed earlier. Here is slide show with four version of the image. The first is basically a straight shot with somewhat increased saturation.The other three modified with a Photoshop plug-in filter a friend told me about recently.
