Your excellent choice of focus creates a stunning presentation of this stump. It looks like there is a whole landscape encapsulated into this slice of tree.
Hi partner! I tried to come up with something that will work with your abstract August, so here it is ... take and invert a black and white photo. You can do this in PS or Elements by clicking Control I or in Lightroom by inverting the Tone Curve. If you can't do this, let me know and I'll set another challenge.
Oooo...I was just playing with a color image, so if you'd like, I'll amend that challenge to simply inverting an image. It doesn't necessarily have to be a b&w ...