A Dream?

Here's my funky edit
First of all, this was shot with my then handphone, a Sony ST23i -
a simple handphone by today's standards
As for the post-edit, I always use picasa
For this image, I put it through a variety of different edits, mainly lightened it entirely before adding shadows to bring up the accents, such as the eyes of Buddha, and also a light percentage of pencil sketch, so we have this almost sketched effect
I still wanted the flecks of gold, so didn't totally wipe out the colour, but left a hint of it
The sky colour is the original, lightened together with the image
Also, added a touch of spot focus to keep the sides a little blurred,
hence this surreal, dream-like look
I wanted an image that was there, yet not quite there
A Dream

Swayambhunath temple stupa
(Monkey Temple)
Kathmandu, Nepal

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