Blogger Community Photo Challenge - SPRING!

The current Blogger Community Photo Challenge...SPRING!

The season is very late arriving on Long Island this year.  We have a few flowers finally coming up, but they're being challenged by the lingering cool temperatures.  I think we still have another week or so to wait for full spring color.

During the winter, the goldfinches moult their brilliant plumage.  But just this week, I've noticed a few flashes of  bright yellow at my feeders.  Spring must be here.

Be sure to visit the other photographers who are participating in the challenge.  The links are here.

April 2

Over the winter, I've been trying to learn a little about stylizing images with textures in photoshop. It's a fairly simple process with endless possibilities. There are thousands of free textures to download all over the web and countless ways to stack and manipulate them on a given image. I'm not sure how I feel about the process. In way, it seems a bit like a gimmick. Everywhere, people are applying an effect to an image (snapshot) and presenting it as "art". But on the other hand, it is fun. I decided to post this (and perhaps a few more) but they are what they are.

It seems that a lot of images that I see manipulated this way have an ethereal feel. My style is evolving a bit differently.