Grey furry plant :)

This year I have rather foolishly decided to do a Flickr 100x challenge group this year. Let's see how that goes!

The topic is 100x monochrome, to include B&W, mono-colour and toned images. B&W is a fascinating genre but needs a different visual mindset. Hopefully, I'll get better and have fun along the way.

This is close-up of a plant in someone else's garden. It's grey and furry. My mastery of botany is as well...

It reminded me of deer antlers, hence the title. We only have little deer in the woods around here, so not much antler but loads of weird noises when the males are rutting!

Also for the Mittwoch Makro group :)

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image! Happy Macro Wednesday and 100x :)

[Handheld in sunlight.
Developed in Photolab 3, for tonal range and also with fairly hefty Prime noise reduction. There was little colour in the image to start with.
Processed in Affinity Photo with the conversion to monochrome using Nik Silver Efex Pro 2, starting with a High Key preset and working from there. Blue toning.
Sharpened back in Affinity using UnSharp Mask, masked to just the in-focus bits so the haloing of the tones and noise wasn't boosted.
Flipped horizontally because it looked better flowing that way. A bit of a crop and a heavy soft dark vignette to finish....]

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