Washington Barn, or perhaps dilapidated Washington House comes from an image I took in '95 somewhere out around Snoqualmie / NorthBend in Washington State. Either the original slide is a tad out of focus or the slide scan is, or maybe both. The slide is not between glass so it's not held perfectly flat. But I was hand-held with a telephoto on a cloudy day and, this being film, no option to crank the ISO up to compensate. So what do you do with a slightly out-of-focus slide? I could have junked it and consigned it to the trash but I decided instead to run it through Topaz Simplify to get this effect. I like vivid greens, I don't know if that's because I grew up in the rolling hills of southern england or if it's because I spent so much of my early adult life living in deserts where green was largely absent from God's palette – plenty of blue and yellow there, just not mixed together.
Washington Barn
