Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=150781&Start=1&Artist=Michelle+A%2E&ByArtist=Yes

I posted the B&W version of this is the gallery.....here is the color version. The link is here if you want to take a peek at it.

I am, therefore I create.......
--- michelleamarante.com

Hmmm....now that I'm looking at this I think I could have boosted the saturation a bit on this color version.

I am, therefore I create.......
--- michelleamarante.com

That's still got a bunch of color! Pine trees have the most unusual texture! Could have been your contest entry!

I think the color is just fine here, and I prefer the color ones always,even if b-w is fine too.

I think I'm inclined towards the color one here also. Really like the little green lichen stuff against the deep red.

Thank Marshall, gunsan, Misha......I liked them both....you all know how I love b&w....but when it comes to color, I love rich color, thats why I think I could have played with it a little more.

I am, therefore I create.......
--- michelleamarante.com

the b/w is real nice....but this color one is just great...damn I love sharp images...

This is excellent - I love the way you got the moss, it looks like you could touch the monitor and feel it!

I like the natural colour of this, it balances nicely with the texture. Very different image to the b&w, I shot a few like this the other day, bark & trees are such great subjects & you did excellent job with these.

elusive.chaos

"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star...." (Nietzsche)

This just struck me, caught me by surprise while I was surfing through a lot of messages (that I was not able to view regularly), and excited me a lot..!

Very beautiful image..!!

I also checked out the b/w one, and though I think that it is also a neat photo for its sharpness, tones, framing style, etc., this colored one is far more successful as it defines its subject matter perfectly...
The b/w one is rather an "interesting and clean texture work", while this one's "informativeness" is its one of the stronger features, I think.

Congrats... :)

I agree with what you said in the gallery....the b&w was intended to be an abstract....I don't want people to recognize what it is immediately. I was immediately drawn to this tree when I saw it....the bark on it was so different from the other pines around it.

I am, therefore I create.......
--- michelleamarante.com

Both are great. The interesting thing about the B&W version is that each time I looked at it (glancing away for a second and then looking back) I seemed to see something different in it. At each glance it'd look like tar, then grease, then tree bark, etc. I guess the fact that it was B&W, i.e. just shadow and light, with no color to suggest what it actually was, it allowed my imagination to run wild. Lots of fun.

So good, both of them! No favourite - to me they stand as two distinct images, even though I know they are the same, only one has colour...can't explain that, but there you go... ;-)>