Diffusion Without Photoshop Filters

(click on picture for panorama view)

I photographed this bucolic scene in the country, and I knew that because of the dramatic clouds and fields that I was going to make it look like a painting.  My normal way of doing this, as an uber geek, is to feed it into Photoshop, and use an array of software filters.

However, it was raining that day, and I had my camera in a ziplock bag.  I decided to shoot through the ziplock bag for a diffusion screen.  It turned out fantastic.  The result is above.  It is a great way to get diffusion without Photoshop software image manipulation filters.