Our local mountain, Mt. Diablo, is usually very windy up at the summit. The mountain is just over 3,800 feet and there can be a dramatic temperature difference from the bottom to the summit. I love how the wind sweeps over the grass that has yet to turn green.
Windswept
Laura Macky Photography 
December 18, 2014 at 10:18 pm
Lovely.
December 18, 2014 at 10:29 pm
Thank you!
December 18, 2014 at 10:20 pm
Beautiful!
December 18, 2014 at 10:29 pm
Thank you Cathy 🙂
December 18, 2014 at 10:25 pm
Wow, is that a painting? Gorgeous!
December 18, 2014 at 10:30 pm
I hope it looks like one. It started out a photograph.
December 18, 2014 at 10:30 pm
This is beautiful.
December 18, 2014 at 10:31 pm
Thank you so much 🙂
December 18, 2014 at 10:33 pm
Beautiful, Laura!
December 19, 2014 at 6:26 am
Thank you so much 🙂
December 18, 2014 at 10:35 pm
love the vignette effect
December 19, 2014 at 6:27 am
Thank you Michael. 🙂
December 18, 2014 at 10:35 pm
It looks very much like a paintimg. What a gift you have!
December 19, 2014 at 6:27 am
Aw thank you! Nice of you to say. I’m glad you like it.
December 18, 2014 at 11:06 pm
yup lewks like a painting at full frame,very kewl 🙂
December 19, 2014 at 6:27 am
hehe thank you quark 🙂
December 18, 2014 at 11:27 pm
wow, as in W.O.W.
thanks for sharing this beauty.
December 19, 2014 at 6:28 am
Thanks so much for your enthusiastic response to this! I appreciate it. 🙂
December 19, 2014 at 12:03 am
A painting for me too
December 19, 2014 at 6:28 am
Great! I’m on a roll….
December 19, 2014 at 12:17 am
Very beautiful! Yes it does look like a painting – fantastic!
December 19, 2014 at 6:28 am
Thank you! I’m so glad you see the painting.
December 19, 2014 at 1:02 am
Reblogged this on VIVIMETALIUN.
December 19, 2014 at 6:28 am
Thank you for reblogging my image. 🙂
December 19, 2014 at 1:12 am
Gotta love those colours
December 19, 2014 at 6:29 am
Yup! 😀
December 19, 2014 at 1:40 am
OK, now I KNOW you are working with oils on canvas and then photographing them…Your image really is grand – and has a very Hudson River School feel to it. You certainly have this processing technique down. Very impressive work!
December 19, 2014 at 6:30 am
I can’t fool you can I! (rhetorically said) 😉 We’ll see what happens with future images. I wouldn’t do this on every one of them, but it is fun to do! Thank you!
December 19, 2014 at 2:06 am
I like that oil painting effect in Photoshop. You’ve applied it very nicely on this shot.
December 19, 2014 at 6:31 am
Yeah me too….it’s a shame they removed it from PSCC. But I have ways of creating it now without the PS filter.
December 19, 2014 at 6:37 am
I don’t have PSCC, so I still have it.
December 19, 2014 at 6:43 am
Ohh yeah they took it away. There was a reason for it, I forget.
December 19, 2014 at 2:35 am
looks more like a painting, wonderful
December 19, 2014 at 6:31 am
Glad you like the painting effect. 🙂
December 19, 2014 at 3:16 am
Very nice. Did you use the Topaz Impression filter?
December 19, 2014 at 6:35 am
Thank you Rich. I actually used three. Topaz Restyle, Impression and Nik Analog and then I used Photoshop to dodge and burn.
December 19, 2014 at 3:30 am
Oh my, this is so beautiful, almost surreal. I love it.
December 19, 2014 at 6:35 am
I’m so glad you like it. Thank you. 🙂
December 19, 2014 at 4:11 am
Stunning!
December 19, 2014 at 6:35 am
Thank you Renata!
December 19, 2014 at 4:20 am
I really get the mood and feel the wind with this edit Laura 🙂
December 19, 2014 at 6:36 am
Yay glad you do Sarah! Get out the hat!
December 19, 2014 at 8:32 am
And pin it on!!! 😉
December 19, 2014 at 9:56 am
haha totally!
December 19, 2014 at 4:42 am
Impressive Laura.
December 19, 2014 at 6:36 am
Thanks much. 🙂
December 19, 2014 at 5:39 am
Beautiful!!!
December 19, 2014 at 6:36 am
Thank you Herman 🙂
December 19, 2014 at 6:04 am
What a lovely rendering of your photograph. I like the effect you got from the vignette too.
December 19, 2014 at 6:36 am
Thanks so much James. I was kind of thinking the vignette may be a bit strong but a few have mentioned they like it.
December 19, 2014 at 6:59 am
Interesting technique. What did you use? Pretty awesome
December 19, 2014 at 7:05 am
Thank you. I’m glad you like it. Well…like everything I used multiple things with masks. But mostly it was Topaz Restyle, Topaz Impression, Nik Analog and a little dodging and burning along the way.
December 19, 2014 at 7:08 am
This is amazing Laura. Bravo PB 🙂
December 19, 2014 at 7:09 am
Thank you Dan :))
December 19, 2014 at 7:13 am
Wow! Wow! Wow! That is one fantastic image!
December 19, 2014 at 7:15 am
And I am wowed by your comment, thank you!!
December 19, 2014 at 7:28 am
Very artistic, Laura!
December 19, 2014 at 7:36 am
Thank you Ravi 🙂
December 19, 2014 at 10:01 am
Lovely and interesting.
December 19, 2014 at 7:07 pm
Thank you Victor. 🙂
December 19, 2014 at 10:07 am
beautiful effect!
December 19, 2014 at 7:07 pm
Thank you!
December 19, 2014 at 10:59 am
I really like what you’ve done with this photo!
December 19, 2014 at 7:09 pm
Thanks so much. 🙂
December 19, 2014 at 12:06 pm
Excellent treatment, much like a painting
December 19, 2014 at 7:10 pm
Glad you like it. Thank you. 🙂
December 19, 2014 at 12:53 pm
Wow this is fabulous Laura! 🙂
December 19, 2014 at 7:10 pm
Thank you so much! It was fun to do.
December 19, 2014 at 1:17 pm
Gorgeous!
December 19, 2014 at 7:10 pm
Thank you!
December 19, 2014 at 2:07 pm
Wow, thats really something! Tons of movement and I feel the mood that I think you were trying to capture. Did you achieve this in photoshop?
December 19, 2014 at 7:11 pm
Yes I did. I love to process photos. I’m glad you could feel the wind. 🙂
December 19, 2014 at 3:01 pm
So beautiful!!
December 19, 2014 at 7:11 pm
Thank you. 🙂
December 19, 2014 at 4:03 pm
NICE>>>>>>>j
December 19, 2014 at 7:12 pm
Thank you! 🙂
December 19, 2014 at 5:54 pm
Superb, Laura! Fantastic job!
December 19, 2014 at 7:12 pm
I take that as a very high compliment coming from you. 🙂 Thank you!
December 19, 2014 at 6:27 pm
Wonderful Laura .. 🙂
December 19, 2014 at 7:12 pm
Thank you Julie. 🙂
December 19, 2014 at 7:46 pm
so much like a painting.
December 20, 2014 at 6:31 am
I’m glad 🙂 Thank you.
December 20, 2014 at 1:00 am
like an impressionist painting – I love the way you processed (?) this image.
December 20, 2014 at 6:31 am
Thank you(?) 😉
December 20, 2014 at 12:03 pm
This is one of your greatest images. I am in awe 🙂
December 20, 2014 at 1:25 pm
Why thank you so much Andrew! I really appreciate it. I had fun making it. 🙂
December 21, 2014 at 9:44 am
wow, like a painting, a eye cather for sure. Love this!
December 21, 2014 at 11:57 am
This is nothing short of magical, Laura! Wow!
December 21, 2014 at 11:57 am
Thank you so much Tiny!
December 21, 2014 at 8:27 pm
Spectacular work on a gorgeous shot *and* processing, Laura! WOW!!!!!! I Loooooove it.
❤
Joyful times throughout the end/beginning of the year, my dear!!
Kath
December 22, 2014 at 6:39 am
Oh thank you so much Kath! I’m glad you like it. 😀 😀 Happy Holidays to you!
December 22, 2014 at 11:45 am
It is so beautiful!!
December 22, 2014 at 5:15 pm
Thank you 🙂
December 23, 2014 at 9:19 pm
We were up on a mountain in Salem District of Tamil Nadu India one year and watched the clouds rise from the bottom of the mountain to the summit. Actually it was a cold front that swept in and the clouds literally rolled up the mountain. I did not think of taking a photo then, but now I wished I had.
December 24, 2014 at 6:50 am
That would be a lot more amazing than our Mt. Diablo, that’s for sure!
December 24, 2014 at 4:16 am
Beautifully done Laura.
December 24, 2014 at 6:52 am
Thank you so much Declan. 🙂
January 14, 2015 at 8:23 pm
The photograph is absolutely lovely, and I don’t know if I ever mentioned it yet, but I really like your banner. For some reason, it hits that same chord in me that responds so well to Science Fiction novels. It’s beautiful.
January 14, 2015 at 9:00 pm
Thank you so much for your kind comments! I was getting tired of the balloon header so I thought this one was a nice change. 🙂