May 232015
 

birthday abstraction

I made this abstraction in Photoshop of selections from photos I made this year. I moved jagged selections around to fit like a puzzle. I masked and brushed and erased edges till it flowed. I changed hues to create a feeling of benign breeze. Can you tell we live on the Gulf and visited the West Indies this winter? Enjoy!

May 032015
 

These exotic birds are residents of Jungle Gardens in Sarasota, Florida. In some cases the backgrounds were quite distracting, so I employed Photoshop or Lightroom and my imagination to give them a new context.

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