I am a creature of habit. I start the day looking out the window for photo opportunities as soon as I get up. I had already decided to not post anything today, so I just wandered outside with my camera to take photos to perhaps use on another day. I was struck by how the light was hitting some water drops on the branches I could see through the lower branches, so took a few shots. I was pretty unsuccessful in capturing the water drops, but ended up really liking the images that I did get. I discovered my Flickr group’s theme today is gray, so I took this photo into Perfect Effects and used one of the presets (Daguerrotype) as a starting point. It did add some grain to this already noisy photo, but I like the result. It is reminding me somehow of a book cover- but I can’t figure out which book.
And then- I just can’t help myself- I am posting this today instead of waiting for another day.
melinda anderson photography 
Looks cold to me!
This is great. The framing by the outer branches really draws the eye inward to the interesting patterns of the smaller branches. And this is a perfect subject for monotone. Nice job. I like the Daguerrotype preset. Very effective.