Photo comparison

[Waterwings]

Thought I'd post two shots of the same subject:

First one taken yesterday (currently in the March Photo contest thread). This is after post-processing:

This is the same tree (re-taken this morning because I deleted the original by mistake), but un-edited and showing all the "stuff" around the tree on the hilltop:

 

[wasilvers]

Good job - is it a lot of work editing out the 'extra's?

 

[Waterwings]

It was time-consuming, and the first time I've tried the clone tool in the Gimp program. Gave me a headache, lol