Summertime Fractalius

August 10, 2011 - It’s getting harder and harder to find good birding subjects in this heat! Even the mallards are scarce in Stoneybrook West right now. So here’s a Fractalius image for the day…

It Rained on Friday…All Day!

July 8, 2011 - We needed the rain. We needed the rain. I kept repeating that to myself as I looked outside, wishing I was out with my camera. Why can’t it rain on days that I have to work instead of days that I have off? So I stayed inside and worked on post-processing today. I had a […]

More Fractalius Fun

July 1, 2011 - I played more with Fractalius tonight.  This is a Limpkin picture from this weekend’s Circle B Bar Reserve visit.  I love how the beak turned out.

Life on Stilts at MINWR

June 3, 2011 - Can you imagine going through life with ridiculously long red legs? It’s not often that I devote a Beyond The Backyard blog post exclusively to one bird.  But after spending the morning at the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, I had a ton of great images of Black-Necked Stilts.  They are all over! I found […]

Something Different — Fractalius

May 27, 2011 - I downloaded the Fractalius Photoshop filter this afternoon.  It’s fun!  It works by finding fractals inside your image.  You control how the image looks by dragging sliders to vary the line size, diffusion, and a bunch of other factors.  For some of these pictures, I blended the Fractalius output with the original image.  For others, […]