Usually autumn colors in a photo push heavily towards processing in color. I played around with this one with converting to black and white … and emphasizing the yellows and oranges by increasing the highlighting. This was taken along the North Fork Skokomish River trail about 1.5 miles above Staircase Campground in the Olympic National Park. The large trees are Big Leaf Maples, the rest a mixture of alders, willows and other.
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Love your black and whites Allan. Whenever I use a photo for inspiration for watercolor, I print out a black and white so I can clearly see the value layout. Before reading your description, I thought this was a snow picture 🙂
Great photo!