Week 14: Bike Wheels in Marlborough, Wiltshire

There are days when I feel the need to just take a different view of life, to try and see it differently. This image is a result of one such need. Taken while walking through the delightful town of Marlborough in Wiltshire and inspired by a DPC challenge which I did not enter, the wheels are from a row of bikes lined up outside a bicycle shop (where else? I hear you ask). Anyhow, when I saw the row of bikes I immediately thought black and white kind of monochrome thing to capture the essence of the patterns of the wheels to take them into a more abstract space.

The post processing was fun, using PS2 curves to force the colours to either end of the histogram, and then I used the Black and White Styler plug-in to process the image as a light monochrome rendition on soft paper. Cropping, some usm and then sizing the picture with a border completed the job. Not a shot that typically does well on DPC but one I enjoyed thinking about, taking and processing.