For a while I was using this "slightly" manipulated image for an avatar on my Google account. This baby squirrel was apparently blown out of a tree during Hurricane Ike and my wife found it in our back yard when our dogs were barking at it. It was pretty run down from exposure and had a slightly bloody nose. My wife hand fed it for about 4 - 6 weeks until it got it's strength back. I guess it liked the treatment because we had a dickens of a time getting it to return to the wild. Eventually it did make return to the wild, if you can call our backyard "wild", and we eventually were no longer able to tell it form the many other squirrels that stay there.
The main impact of this version of the photo was created with Photoshop's "Outer Glow" filter.
This was the assignment shot for "Diptych" my twin brother Barry and I entered at last nights BAPC Honors Night. The photo scored the most points on the evening and was generally well received by the three person panel of judges.
Another shot of our Kayaking excursion in the Lucayan National Park area of Nassau in the Bahamas.
This self portrait was shot on the Gatlinburg Sky Lift in Gatlinburg, TN on our trip to the Great Smoky Mountains for the first week of this month. The ride isn't that high of the ground but for me it was plenty high enough. When I wasn't shooting photos I spent the rest of the time trying to figure out how secure the TINY connection point to the cable for these lift chairs could possibly be!
For a while I was using this "slightly" manipulated image for an avatar on my Google account. This baby squirrel was apparently blown out of a tree during Hurricane Ike and my wife found it in our back yard when our dogs were barking at it. It was pretty run down from exposure and had a slightly bloody nose. My wife hand fed it for about 4 - 6 weeks until it got it's strength back. I guess it liked the treatment because we had a dickens of a time getting it to return to the wild. Eventually it did make return to the wild, if you can call our backyard "wild", and we eventually were no longer able to tell it form the many other squirrels that stay there.
