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I took a walk down the train tracks this morning hoping for some kind of interesting shot. I took a few but none that I felt like posting. Then I noticed this stone covered in ice laying on the sleeper. Just took one shot before retreating inside with my frozen fingers. I did not realize my camera was set to jpeg, but still had some fun in camera raw, used the vignette to open up the perimeter.

I wonder which came first, the no parking sign, or the utility pole directly behind the sign? If you could get your vehicle in there, I wonder how they'd tow you?

Instead of letting the traffic drive by with my shutter set for long exposure, I moved the camera to introduce additional curves and lines to the image. This was the best from the set.

I made all my edits on this JPEG photo using Adobe Camera Raw...see the previous image for the original.

Some white balance mods, slight vignetting, and a fair amount of playing with the HSL/ grayscale sliders to shift and boost some of the colors, and this photo is the result.

Note: I made a copy before doing the edits, since I wasn't sure whether the edits made by Camera Raw are non-destructive when working on jpegs. I know that for may RAW PIF files, the edits are save in the associated XMP files, so my digital negative is always preserved.