I was out this past weekend taking photos of a frozen over fountain near my home. It was very overcast and really difficult to get close enough to the ice to be able to tell if I was even in focus. I opened up one of the images tonight and thought it looked okay - but not sharp enough to really amount to much so I took it for a spin with PS's filter/distortion/twirl. What I got was this image's structure. I think it looks like a bird flying overhead, wings outstretched. I added a bicolored filter at the last minute to intensify the powerful cold effect and went with this - a pink/blue combo - although others looked nice as well. I then erased it from the part that looked like the bird to separate it from the BG a bit more. Not too shabby for an image I was going to throw in the trash!
