Winter Nature, and playing with photoshop

So I went outside in back yard to take pictures and see what I could find. My goal was to find 'winter nature scenery'. But with the snow melting and the grass starting to grow, I didn't know what I could find of winter, if anything worth value at all.


In this picture I think it captures on what color can can do to a picture. Below is a creepy tree that looks like it could pull out it's arms and grab you alive. The picture underneath it is the same tree, the same picture, but I think it has a much more different effect on the viewer. In the bottom picture the trees look more freindly and more like winter. I still didn't capture 'winter' in the way that I was planning to with these pictures, but at least I think it looks interesting.

So here is the family trees in the old back yard that looks
kind of scary in a way. Mabey it is just me, but in a way it
kind of looks like those creepy gravegard trees that you see
in horror movies. I don't really know. I just changed the color
contrast and then changed the format to BW to give it a more creepy effect. 

Same Tree, just less scary.
Shutter 1/500
Aperture f/2.9
Exposure 0.00
Panasonic DMC-L27 

      Obviously I edited the photo below. I found the 'liquify' button on photoshop and had fun playing with it. Personally I think this looks like it came out of a Dr. Seusses book because of how the waves all blend in together. One interesting thing that if you look closely you will see is that the waves kind of blend in toward the center of the picture, giving it a more warped look.

My Dr. Seusses version of the world.
Shutter 1/800
Aperture f/2.8
Exposure 0.00
Same Camera

I like this photo because of the nice parrell tree lines and the animal tracks through the snow. When I was taking these photos my dog was outside with me and thus it's possible that the animal tracks aren't all exotic wildlife but also the tracks of a common household dog. I'm still being imature and and playing with the photoshop effects to try to change the color contract. In case you didn't notice...the nice 'shadows' are not really blue/purple but were a more natural black/grey shadow color.


                                                                      Shutter speed 1/500
                                                                      Aperture   f/8.00
                
So tell me what you think of my pictures.