Hillsides and Mountains with a Spring Bloom (Shenandoah National Park) by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While walking around the Dickey Ridge Visitor Center with a view looking to the southwest to other ridges and peaks (Buck Mountain & Long Mountain based on PeakVisor app) in the Northern Blue Ridge. This is in Shenandoah National Park. In composing this image, I wanted to keep a balance with the foreground with the grasses and nearby trees and shrubs with that of the blues and whites in the skies above. I felt the foreground grasses helped to create a way to draw a viewer into the image and see the more distant mountains. I did some initial post-processing work making adjustments to contrast, brightness and saturation in DxO PhotoLab 7. I then exported a TIFF image to Nik Color Efex Pro 7 where I added a Polarization, Foliage, and Pro Contrast filter for that last effect on the image captured.
