Photo contest: post processing #6 - Cold waiting time.

A few years ago we were forced to leave one very warm and sunny country where we had lived for a long time.

There, when the heat subsided and the evening coolness fell on the city, we got into our car and went to a wonderful park in the Valley of Mills near the lake and enjoyed a walk.

When we had plenty of walking we were looking for a bench and as long as possible so that we all fit and could safely enjoy the beautiful sunset.

That time flew by and we could not find something similar in the city where we live today.

Every time we go out for a walk, we remember how our children ran forward in search of a suitable bench, or two benches standing side by side.

Many years have passed and even in winter those benches thoughts about them warm us.

A place where you can dream and talk discuss something important or just sit and laugh, the memory of him is in my photo work which became another entry for competition Photo contest: post processing #6 organized by the Dear @bambuka.

Today the most picturesque place to go is the neighboring swamps lol but I can't go there with the whole family my girls don't really like swampy bumps lol.

But perhaps if there was a suitable bench there my chances of such a walk with my family would greatly increase at any time of the year regardless of the heat and cold.

In my work I decided to combine warm memories of the past a cold present and a bright future in an atmospheric sunrise and snow is just the time that I want to hurry.

It can be said that again the task for the competition was not the easiest, despite the simplicity of the image of two snow-covered benches somewhere in the park which I photographed and sent as a competition task Dear @ty-ty.

I realized right away that I needed to remove the background but what to do with it I still did not know.

Appetite comes with eating and I decided to remove everything to the maximum.

I thought I needed to add some juiciness to this bench that I planned to place on my own snowy background but it took a long time to look for what I approved in my soul.

I found what I was looking for and it was a landscape photograph taken by me in the winter in the swamps.

You see swamp hummocks covered with snow.

The photo was taken in the early morning and I wanted to brighten it up a bit.

Just in case I prepared an extra layer leaving only the tree and some grass in the foreground.

To create what I was looking for I needed snowfall and I borrowed it from a photograph that I took in the city last New Year's Eve.

There is pure snow here you don't see it very well, but it's there.

This is how the first two layers of the future picture began to look.

Now, it's time to add the bench covered in snow.

The next layer was a patch of grass in the foreground to create some three-dimensional perception.

It's getting better but it's not over yet more work needs to be done.

Another layer creates volume for the snowfall and it remains to age the bench a little but you have already seen this in the first photograph.

Most likely, it will seem to you that I have stepped aside from surreal stories and hit a dry reality but in fact a bench in the swamps is no less surreal than Pepsi at McDonald's.

Author @barski.