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I'd like to hear what the OP thinks of the edits. For me ebrunner has trumped the rest.
He has changed the scale of the image but lost nothing and in doing so has made the pool behind the dam more dominant and this in turn has added an additional peacefulness to the original.
I also think his colour manipulation gives a more remote feel to the location.

Pleased to have taken part and pleased with all the results - but that's my favourite. Will it remain so?

John N,
(as the OP) I think all the edits are interesting and some are quite good, but I agree that ebrunner's edit is particularly pleasing. Coincidentally, I did an edit similar to his, but nowhere near as well executed.

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Mar 15, 2021 12:40:21 #

(For Your Consideration)

My Image Your View: Old Mission Dam

This is one of my favorite places in San Diego to take walks and photos. A bit of history:
The Old Mission Dam is a historic water impoundment structure built around 1803 in San Diego. It was built to impound the San Diego River to provide water for irrigation of the fields associated with the Mission San Diego de Alcalá, the first Spanish mission in what is now California. It was the first major colonial-era irrigation project on the Pacific coast of the United States. The surviving remnant of the dam was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1963.

Feel free to download this image to your computer. Then you can edit it any way that you think is an improvement. Composites, black and white conversions, textures, sky swaps, inverted images, solarization, or whatever else you think will improve the photo are acceptable techniques for your edit. When you are finished, post your edit in this thread. Edits will be accepted until 9pm Eastern time on Thursday. No edits will be accepted after that time because we will begin voting then. Thank you for your efforts and your participation.