Sooooo Tired of Snow! by taffy

Sooooo Tired of Snow!

This is the view from my office window (with a few bird embellishments and some selective color). I look across a service road, then the Eisenhower Expressway (also known as I-90) and El tracks. You can just make out the condo buildings on the other side of the highway. Note that it is dull, gray, boring, and that this is what it has looked like unendingly this winter. The little birds are my hope for spring to come soon, sometime....
For bw-bookclub's emphasis on artistic choice -- which may not be artistic at all!
Processing: convert to b&w in Aperture, bring back orange warning cone. Export to Color Efex to work on contrasts. Save and export to pic monkey to bring up snow and add birds to match the warning cone. Nice break but now back to work...
Too funny!!
February 17th, 2014  
Well it made me laugh.........those birds are great!!
February 17th, 2014  
:) Awesome shot
February 17th, 2014  
love those little birds! looking very official in their high viz jackets :)
February 17th, 2014  
Love it. Made me laugh out loud. Perfect humor for yet another day of endless snow. :)
February 17th, 2014  
The grass is always greener - or maybe that should be the snow is always whiter. We haven't had any snow in the UK so your snow photos always look so pretty and I think how lucky you are. I particularly like the addition of those traffic cone birds.
February 17th, 2014  
Your embellishments brighten up the picture which is very wintry!
February 17th, 2014  
Ha! Very cute!! Some Orioles perhaps?! I can't wait for spring!
February 17th, 2014  
Interesting processing, nice shot
February 17th, 2014  
You've made this into a whimsical shot. Very cute.
February 17th, 2014  
Cool shot in so many ways. Very creative use of color.
February 17th, 2014  
I haven't seen snow for years, I love seeing it on 365
February 18th, 2014  
Love your inventiveness with the processing, a cute shot.
February 18th, 2014  
Nice capture!
February 18th, 2014  
Love the birds - great processing.
February 18th, 2014  
This is great..and I agree..I am sooooo done with snow! 4 more inches tonight. Ugh ugh
February 18th, 2014  
If it helps we saw 2 Robins today. We laughed and thought they weren't the brightest Robins.
February 18th, 2014  
Wonderful picture.
February 18th, 2014  
AC
Nice job... I am sure you are more than longing for another summer on Beaver's Island!
February 18th, 2014  
Love the processing - nice work!
February 18th, 2014  
I like how you took a dreary day, dreary photo, and made it fun, fun, fun!
February 18th, 2014  
very cool
February 18th, 2014  
I never thought i´d say this but please send some over -we had had such a crappy winter, hardly any snow. love your little birdies too :)
February 18th, 2014  
It does look dreary especially having to live with for days on end. The capture is beautiful and the view is lovely though. Hope to see it again in different weather conditions.
February 18th, 2014  
Very creative and it certainly adds some colour!
February 18th, 2014  
cute looking birds - and the never-ending rain is getting equally old this side of the Atlantic - similarly grey and dull
February 18th, 2014  
Lovely view, like the sc and the addition of the birds
February 18th, 2014  
Wonderful.
February 18th, 2014  
nice processing
February 18th, 2014  
There's a reason people started doing black and white in February!
February 19th, 2014  
@jocasta Thanks Jocasta! And looking at all the photos of rain in the UK, I don't think I'd want to trade, despite being tired of the snow here.
February 19th, 2014  
What a great shot and processing.
February 19th, 2014  
@archaeofrog heehee, Katie -- that occurred to me -- I've been at it since Jan 1 and there's really never a day without a b&w possiblity!
February 19th, 2014  
Awesome processing! Love it!
February 20th, 2014  
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