Don't be STUMP-ed!

So I finally dragged myself to a park, something that I wanted to do ever since arriving in London. I really wanted to take some snaps of the autumn colours - brown, red and yellow leaves and the lot. Too little too late though. Winter's already here, and there were no leaves whatsoever left! Well, it is my fault anyway for not making the effort soon enough, and it is already December.

Anyway, the park I went to was Hampstead Heath, a popular park amongst North Londoners, and as it consists of few hills, actually has a good vantage point over most of Central London. I found the tree stump in the photo facing the bright late afternoon sun and thought it would make a good subject with the barenaked trees in the background.

I desaturated the original photo in Photoshop, and added two layers to the resulting image - one to add the dreamy look via Gaussian blur, and another to add a slight hint of color to the otherwise black & white image.