The Beauty of Kale

Often I revisit photos taken years ago, armed with new technologies to look at these images in a fresh way. I took this photo on a rainy day a few years ago in the wonderful kitchen garden at the Gustavus Inn, at the mouth of Glacier Bay. It stands well alone, but recently I've been playing with a Photoshop plug in called Topaz, which can create painterly effects, among other things. I ran the filter on a duplicate photo layer, added a bit of fine tuning with some layer mask work, and voila!