The doors to paradise

I saw this door in the Ouray, Colorado during my recent visit. There was snow everywhere, but the reflection of the tree in the glass gave me an illusion that there may be an oriental paradise behind these magic doors. I tried to capture that mood. Comments are welcome.

The image should be rotated CCW to straighten the horizontal lines. There should be more of the snow to give a clear feeling of the conditions outdoors; the little snow included in the frame doesn't even obviously look like snow at first sight. Also, the image is a bit flat and the colors should be made a bit more lively in contrast and saturation.

Like Michele said, it needs some degrees of rotation. I would also try to crop it so that the door is at the center of the image...

Thanks for the comments.

 

I kept the doors little bit off-center as I thought that will be more eye catching. I did not do much color correction in PS as I wanted to leave the original color, but saturating the color certainly making it dramatic. Thanks for the suggestion. But rotating this image is a great problem in PS. The vertical lines of the doors getting broken and distorted. Have anyone faced such problem before?

Rotating an image inevitably turns straight lines into broken lines. However, the effect becomes negligible if the image on which you apply the correction possesses a decent resolution (say, 2000x1500 pixels, or about 3 Mpixels). Of course, the correction cannot be applied to the little jpeg (usually up to 800x600 pixels or so) that we post here on PN, but has to be applied to the initial image before resizing it. More skilled PS users probably know of some method to overcome the problem even with smaller photos, but I see little point in saving a photo only in the PN format - I give it for granted that you have a larger one in your PC.

I agree and ad: it's a funny photo.