Vintage image from the docks

I love this image – I want a large print of it.

I made it during the week and when I came to write the post today and inserted the image I was wowed again.  If I came across it somewhere else I would believe that it is an old postcard or illustration from a book. But it isn’t – I took the photo last week and applied textures for Kim Klassen’s Tuesday texture challenge – vintage is the challenge this week.  You can see how others met the challenge here.

Here is the straight out of camera shot – rather ho hum I think.  But I’m finding that the texture magic works best on my not so great shots.  How about you – do you tend towards your great or your ho hum photos for texturing and do you take photos with the intention of using them for texture?

For those who just like to enjoy the image you can stop reading now!  For those who like to know how it was done:

First I boosted the colours – seems a bit odd when I am then going on to remove colour but the boost increased the contrast in the image.  I used the Pioneer Woman boost action – three times.

Then I applied three textures from Kim Klassen.  Cinnamon on darken blending mode at 80% opacity then Magic 1 on screen mode at  100% opacity then Portrait on darken mode at 100% opacity.