a noble oak (the South's Live Oak trees provide the timber for Old Ironsides) laid low by hurricane Ike ...this was the biggest tree lost in my neighborhood & before it was cut up, it completely blocked this street
I elected to not use any additional sharpening for this as it scored > 330 with Nik SharpenerPro
full resolution crops can be found in Techniques -----> http://www.pbase.com/artichoke/techniques&page=23 & a duotone from Nik SilverEfex in my BW subsection of Techniques ----> http://www.pbase.com/artichoke/bw&page=4