This morning I went to visit one of my favorite nature photography interest sites, NatureScapes.Net (NSN), and discovered that my photograph “Glowing Fern” was named Image of the Week in their Digital Creations image gallery forum.  I don’t usually do a whole lot of digital manipulation to my photographs (and whenever I do I always disclose such information), but every once in a while I play around with my images when I get bored.  Usually, the results aren’t worth keeping, but sometimes I get a result I really like.  In this case, just adding a diffusion filter in PhotoShop improved this picture a lot from its original capture.

Here’s my winning photo:

And here’s the link to it on NSN: http://www.naturescapes.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=141854