hand of man

Eliot Crowley “Just Another Sunset” 02/27/23

On a trip to Santa Cruz these trees were silhouetted against the sky. Keeping just enough fence line along the bottom of the dark horizon line gives the hand of man some space. I started by shooting the scene vertically and overlapping the trees in anticipation of creating a panoramic using Lightroom. That alone looked pretty cool when I set it to black and white. But the photo needed something else to give it some character. Selecting the sky in Photoshop and inserting a sky shot years ago gave it that thing, a reason to exist beyond just a pretty picture. Or is it.