A winter evening, with bare trees against a darkening purple sky. Lots of noise and some artifacts, but still a beautiful stock scene. Enjoy.

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Original publication.

The sky turned purple in this sunset, so I got this photo of the clouds with some bare trees in front. The clouds were darker above, which you can see at the top of the frame.

Canon Rebel XTi, EF 50mm 1:1.4, 1/80, F2.2, 50mm, ISO400, 2008-01-05T17:53:56-05, 20080105-225356rxt

Source image. I darkened the clouds at the top, shifted the colors to be more purple, and improved the contrast.

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Source image, compiled from the Canon Rebel XTi RAW file using the default settings in PhotoFiltre Studio.