Kind of surreal

[GDub]

Last year my wife and I did a 10,000 mile train trip from San Francisco to Vancouver, BC to Halifax, NS and back. Amazing trip! All of the images I took were with my Canon G11. This particular shot angling up to the Golden Boy on the dome of the Manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg lent itself nicely to a kind of HDR effect in black and white. I did the B&W conversion in Nik Silver Efex Pro, adding a good percentage of contrast and structure, plus some vignetting to add drama.

http://mediarare.com/GWimages/images/winnepeggoldenboy1_blog.jpg

Let me know what you think about the image.

Sláinte.

[Marko]

I really like the processing here - lovely job!

[Greg_R]

Very cool. The sky looks like water.

[edG]

well made!!

[thoughton]

It'a a classy mono conversion. The sky is indeed great.