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@Paul: Thanks Paul. A lot of my stark images are aggressively processed in photoshop. This particular view is from my bedroom window - I shoot it a lot, especially at this time of year when the low sun renders the scene pretty much in monochrome. The light is often dramatic and some shots have stark contrast without any pp, but on this shot you can see by the way the sky is granulating that I've pushed that area quite hard. My efforts in photoshop use the basic tool set, mainly just the black and white converter and the curves tool, but working on different parts of an image on different layers. Quick masks are used to blend the different areas back together. I'll sometimes use the dodge/burn tools, though rarely, as I prefer the control I can get when working with curves on separate layers. On this shot I may well have used the dodge tool to get some of the channels to be pure white.