Another take on my favourite tree

This is an attempt at something I was challenged to do for a Get Pushed challenge with the current challenge where @teriyakih challenged me:
"With that in mind, you challenge for this week is to shoot the theme "This makes me happy". I want you to take a photo(s) of the things you like the best in the style you think is your best.

That should dovetail nicely into other challenges, but I really want you to do the stuff you can do so well you don't even bother too much with anymore."

This is my favourite tree that I try not to post pictures of too often, taken after the worst of the wind and rain on Friday, but still very stormy, hoping for an interesting sky and processed to look like an infra-red shot - taken black and white as the sky was a nasty brown.

Three good things:
1. I got out for a wander in the fields - on my own as too wet and skiddy for my daughter to walk on grass;
2. fun lunch from the cheap food trawl on Thursday night
3. Enjoying watching the magpie family, just fledged, out the back - sadly I didn't get a shot of them all balancing on the fence together.

Thank you for looking. I prefer to spend time looking at your pictures rather than thanking you individually below.

[Shanne]

@teriyakih and @fbailey - getting out into the fields as far as this field makes me happy - and trying new things and getting them to work does too.

[Jane Pittenger]

This works wonderfully

[FBailey]

Brilliant! I thought it was IR at first. Challenge nailed, super job:))

[summerfield]

hmmmm...this gives me an idea. there's a linden tree near my building that i had been shooting in all seasons but never posted. methinks i shall make it my "no photo today make it the linden tree day". yours here looks like it's been snowed over. aces.

[Denise (lyndemc)]

Your favorite tree has such a nice shape, and stands out so well without any others crowding it.

[Jacqueline]

Wonderful work on your tree! I first thought it was a reverse but after reading the link I saw you did a lot more. Well done ;)

[Graeme Stevens]

Great result, very much like this

[Diana]

A stunning image and beautifully processed.

[Peter H]

Very interesting. Looks like an old tree.

[KoalaGardens🐨]

love the result!

[Teriyaki]

@shannejw really unique processing on this one. is that IR or inverse B&W?

Did things turn out better/worse/ or as expected?

[Shanne]

@teriyakih it's a fake IR, so inverse colour and then a lot of faffing to get it to look like IR - it's something I've been playing with on and off since March when I was challenged to do it but couldn't then as it was rainbow month and I couldn't see how to get it to work then on a single album. I went out in bad light, in a pause between the rain showers and knew I only had stormy skies as there wasn't enough light or stillness for anything else. But my earlier attempts hadn't worked with grey dull skies, so I was hoping this would work with storm clouds

[Dione Giorgio]

Great processing on this beautiful capture.

[Steve Pooley]

Great processing

[Louise]

Great effect!

[Casablanca]

Quite a ghostly effect from the inversion

[Fisher Family]

This effect works really well.

Ian

[Merrelyn]

The IR effect worked well, love your tree :)

[Shutterbug]

Your processing is excellent. I thought it was IR. Made a beautiful shot.

[Louise]

Your tree looks quite magical.

[haskar]

Lovely details. Works well.

[Saxa van Eijnsbergen]

You've processed this wonderfully!

[sarah]

Terrific processing

[David]

I thought this an was infra red shot too. Good result

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Interesting take on your favorite tree- the unusual processing makes me think of a nuclear fall-out for some reason!

[David]

Nice! Fooled me... I was sure it was IR from the thumbnail