Cliff Drive is really one of my favorite places to hang around in the winter: so beautiful, so remote, so quiet... until those blasted snowmobiles come by dang noisy smelly... ok, I'm done now. I'll be back soon!
Edit: For those wondering -- nope, I didn't Photoshop the berries at all. Other than the border and text, the only editing I did was to slightly desaturate the background -- because that's closer to how it appeared to me.
These are Mountain (or Northern) ash berries, which -- believe it or not -- are edible, although very bitter. I'm planning to make some jelly next weekend!
Second edit: The jelly turned out great, although it definitely has a unique flavor. I think it would work well on meat, but it's definitely not a "bread and butter" type jelly! I used this recipe which worked pretty well, but did require extra pectin.
3 comments:
I love this photo! The red is so very... red. Did you do some photoshop tinkering or did they really stand out that much in the woods?
Heh -- I didn't enredden the berries at all, but I did desaturate the background a little. Not much though -- in the winter, any little splash of color really shows up. That's why they caught my eye. :)
I should add that I tweaked it because the end result is how it looked to my eye -- bright red berries popping out from the dull surroundings.
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