silk purse, pigs ear comes to mind - but it makes me happy

[jimd]

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[lphilpot (Len Philpot)]

Also pretty stylized, in ART 1.25.2

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[dqpcoxeas]

My version…

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[age]

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[lightlover]

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[jimd]

Hi
well it was blue hour so I’ll give you that…

[Popanz (Uli)]

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[Sunhillow (Hansgeorg Zauner)]

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[Terry (Terry Pinfold)]

My totally different take on the scene compared to the original post. Maybe mine is a bit vanilla.

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[Dito_Budi]

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[cedric]

GIMP crop

[cedric]

Above with Contrast-Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization w/ default settings:

[BrafMeToo]

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[jscfos]

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