Tipsy's Marker

Yesterday my photo was about headstones. Today I am still on roughly the same theme but I have returned to our Tipsy's garden grave which is marked by a metal plate fashioned from a template of a photo taken in her lifetime. We have at last had a fall of snow although we have got off very lightly of late compared to the rest of the country. I decided there were too many straight snow pictures fluttering around and applied the Texture Craquelure filter. Craquelure is a fine pattern of dense 'cracking' formed on the surface of materials such as ceramics and paintings. One of the best known examples is the craquelure clearly visible on the Mona Lisa. In Photoshop you can adjust the crack spacing, crack depth and crack brightness till you get it right for the photo. Authentic craquelure occurs because paint become less flexible as it ages and shrinks, with paint at the edges becoming most stressed. I also punched in some extra blue in keeping with the scene to give the final painterly effect.