I really liked the rendition of streaks & forms in your recent images. though it might take little more time for me to settle with your crops

regards,
Pratik

Beautifully crafted image sir! The way streaks stand out is really pleasing to see. I cant help but to wonder about the crop. How big is it sir? Also, your choice of border is very interesting. Never seen it before in your images. Can you please share the idea behind? Thanks for sharing.

Madhav, it is a fairly large crop 4332x2115 (~52Meg) from 36M Nikon D810. The actual file is much smoother which I kind of didn't like Coming to the border, have you heard of 'photo distressing' ? During good old days for creative and artistic reasons a few photographers use to scratch negatives/slides/prints and use other techniques to render their inner visions on the final prints (search google for 'negative/print distressing'). Some folks used tea water to distress prints. In US one can buy distressing inks to distress photographs.

Here I kept the border distressed a bit so that it goes well with the 'remains' mood. I had these kinds of borders for my images earlier too (check this link). Nik's s/w made those hard manual job much easier in s/w now! However, it also brings in some amount of predictability to such borders. In the link above I decided to 'manually tear' those edges so that all does not look alike.

Thanks for the info sir. I never knew about 'photo distressing'. Are these images ( image1 image2) distressed?
Beg you pardon for bringing in someother discussion

Madhav, I think they are, not sure whether it is done as a manual process or using s/w (I would guess the latter).

Liked the similar image you made with deers than this....wanted to see some more space especially on the top (may be only me). But the blurred legs and sharp streaks both depicting motion is a lovely combination. TFS

Ganesh this is how histories unfurl. A tiny bit of hint and whole lot of history. Who what when how I see all of that in one magical split of a second here. Tremendous story telling.