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Hummingbird and Thistle as Art

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:20:48 +0000

When I was at Block Creek Natural Area, I had a chance to photgraph quite a few birds and as soon as I saw this image, I was sure it was destined for the Fractalius treatment. That thistle had a lot of great geometry and I am learning that the better the geometry the better the results. Wish I had worked harder on that when I was in high school…OK, not really!

Enjoy this Black-chinned Hummingbird enjoying the thistle. Enjoy, more images at my site…HERE.

Fractalius as Art

admin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 00:00:50 +0000

Well, it was inevitable that I would discover Redfield’s Fractalius….FUN…FUN!

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Skimmer Chick as Art

admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:13:35 +0000

This is a bit different than the normal “art” that I post. I was fortunate to be around when a colony of Black Skimmers were hatching. There were chicks of every age from freshly hatched to fledged. This little puffball was stretching his wings and I thought it was very cute. I decided to create this panoramic montage of the action. I call March of the Skimmers. I hope you like it.

Geese as Art

admin — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:46:07 +0000

I don’t often pixel paint two images at the same time, but I though that these would look together if you hung them together as a pair. I photographed these Snow Geese at the famed Bosque del Apache in New Mexico. Bosque is an all time favorite palce to photograph and it was the place that I went on my very first workshop. Coincidentally I am leading a workshop there myself this year. Maybe I’ll find some more painitngs. You should come and check it out, its is a terrific workshop, if I do say so myself! Here is the link for more information about the workshop.

Painted Bunting as Art

admin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:55:35 +0000

I know I have not posted in a while, but I have been off finding some great new images and working on PAW. PAW is the workshop company that I work with and if you are looking for a photography workshop, then that is the place! Check out their website, The Photographers Alliance Workshops.

I was in Texas for a terrific 10 days and made a lot of great images. You can read about my exploits, here. One of my favorites from the trip was this Painted Bunting. Not that a bird like this needs to be turned into art, but I could not resist. They call the Painted Bunting, “the bird only a 5 year old could color!”

Flying Tern as Art

admin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:10:01 +0000

One of the nice things about my Nikon D300 is shooting really fast, as in 8 frames per second fast! I often end up with a burst of pictures and they in turn lend themselves to a montage like this one. This is 4 exposures of the same Royal Tern layered together to make one image of the Royal Tern landing on the shore.

Willet as Art

admin — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:05:21 +0000

I was camping the Everglades National Park a few weeks ago and one morning I noticed hundreds of shorebirds along the coastline near Flamingo. When I went to investigate I found nearly a thousand Willets had most likely just landed in the US on the northern migration. Quite the spectacle to say the least.

I noticed the one birds attention and so I decided to conver this image to black and white and leave the one bird in color to sort of attact your eye towards him.

I used Adobe Photoshop CS4 to make a selection around the bird and then NIK sofywares Silver efx for the conversion to balck and white.

Least Sandpiper as Art

admin — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:35:35 +0000

I am a photographer and not an artist, I couldn’t draw a straight line if I had to! And occasionally, OK more often than I like to admit I take a picture that is entirely too soft as in not in focus for me to use as a photograph. Well photoshop then comes to the rescue and I can salvage an image from what was certainly an image going in the trash bin.

Here is a before and after of a very cute Least Sandpiper preening. As you can see in the picture on the left it is out of focus and so I rebuilt it as a unique piece of “digital art”.

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