About the Image(s)

Last spring, I took a workshop in Point Reyes, California, but never had a chance to process most of them. The originals for this image are all from that trip.
The landscape original was part of a bracketed set I took. There was enough clean detail in the original I used that I didn't have to use the rest of the set. I brought up the shadows quite a bit and selectively decreased brightness in the sky. After adding the elk, I decided there was too much foreground and so cropped a lot of that out.
The elk was added in several layers in darker color and linear burn modes. It seemed like a good idea at the time, probably because I was looking at the whole picture instead of zooming in. I had to go back and mask in some of the original.
The texture of the board as border was distracting, so I used a Topaz Impression filter to soften it.