One Four Challenge – Week 3

Disunity III. Copyright Joanne Mason 2014.

This is the third edit in the One Four Challenge, a project to edit a single photograph four different ways on successive weeks. The One Four Challenge was originated by Robyn G.

Of the three edits so far, I like this one the best. The processing this week is moving into a more impressionistic style. Starting with the output from raw conversion (which included some exposure adjustments, noise reduction, etc.), the image was processed with software from Topaz to achieve this more “painterly” appearance (Topaz Simplify). Leave comments; I’m very interested in what people think of this style.

If you do a search on my site for “tree” or “trees”, you will find over 70 posts with those tags. I love trees as a subject for photography. They are readily accessible, plentiful, and offer great variety. Most trees have great character, have very individual personalities. Some trees seem to say fundamental things about life and the cosmos. Indeed, there is something powerfully awe-inspiring about trees, rooted to the earth, but alive! vibrant, and growing, often with lifespan and size that dwarf human scale.The textures and shapes of trees are infinitely fascinating. They capture our imagination, and we can conjure up a vision of trees talking with each other, discoursing on all they have witnessed and remarking on the comparatively futile ways of humans. Would the world exist without humans? Probably. But without trees? Exist, maybe, but surely not be such a thing of beauty and joy.

Here are the first three week’s edits together along with the original: