I started with three images of a Brown Creeper photographed near the point in the Rambles of Central Park and made a composite using masks. The birds were not the sharpest, so I duplicated the layers, merged them, and used shake reduction on the birds. I also added a few adjustment layers in Photoshop.
“A wonderful bird is the Pelican.
His beak can hold more than his belly can.
He can hold in his beak
Enough food for a week!
But I’ll be darned if I know how the hellican?”
A limerick by Dixon Lanier Merritt
I remember hearing this as a child. My memory was jogged by a post on Though Open Lens
A Blue Jay bothering a young Red-tailed Hawk in Central Park photographed in March 2015.
It was a gray and damp day. The blue of the Jays was lovely.
Church Street Workshops is a gateway to a small alley leading to a set of doors on a quaint set of little buildings (possibly old worker’s cottages) on Church Street, in Stoke Newington, London on December 23, 2016. Now they are little specialty shops.
Created for Norm’s Thursday Doors February 25
I created these two digital art images in Corel Painter using a photo of a sweet moment between my niece and nephew in Sydney, Australia in 2008. Backgrounds are photos taken in the New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY.
Chihuly and his team make marvelous glass.
Below is a slideshow of photos I took of Chihuly’s installation at the New York Botanical Garden in September 2006. Please excuse the distracting transitions.
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Yesterday we talked about how magnificent and amazing Laysan Albatrosses are. I’ve learned so many cool things about them, but I also learned that they have some big problems to face. They are not problems that are exclusive to Laysans, but effect many other ocean/shore birds and marine animals. One major issue is plastics. I’m mainly going to talk about the effect on Laysan Albatrosses since they are the seabird I’m the most knowledgeable about.
(Image by Jay Holcomb)
Laysan Albatrosses are ingesting plastics that are floating in the ocean when they are hunting for food. One source of food is fish eggs and sometimes egg strands will attach to debris. Laysans will eat these strands and the plastic it is attached to it. According to a study by Barbara Mayer of the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Management, plastics can make up to 50% of indigestible material in a…
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To create my impression of a day in Chinatown I started with a mural at Second Avenue and 1st Street, East Village, NYC in Photoshop. I then imported turtles taken at the Chinese Market under the Manhattan Bridge at East Broadway. I used a blend mode “divide” opacity 65% duplicated the layer and used a blend mode “subtract” opacity 20%. I duplicated those two layers and flipped them and placed part on the left wall. The result is a ballerina floating among cloud like turtles.
For the After Before Forum, Week 76, February 19, 2016
Two images used for the composite:
Sherry Felix - port4u 