KvonK's photostream  

Out today a little too late to get the snow laden branches that I was looking for...so found these 'blow'n in the wind' grasses and applied a creative touch with light modes....when they are moving too much for sharp focus go for the abstract.

Tried a new filter technique this morning on one of my older images...filter, stylize, extrude...voila! Creates an even more interesting effect on what was once a failed physiogram and then mirror flipped a few times.

With a tip from a friend, went out to locate a male snowy sitting a long way off in a field...this is a 75% crop but great to see him....even though it was terrible light.

One of our red squirrels waiting it's turn to get to the bird feeder...had wanted to get out today for some other shooting but felt "under the weather".

The other day while shooting my recent posts of tulips, I had an accident. The flowers were set up in front of the window that the computer sits beside. I wasn't sure how things were going so decided to take the card out of my camera to download to the computer while leaving the set up in place...which was very close to my computer chair. After downloading and processing one of the images, I backed from the computer and BANG! I had backed into my tripod (which was a little top heavy at the time)...my heart sank, my eyes filled and I thought...shit...what have I done. Fortunately for me, this was the only damage, my lens and camera survived the tip into the table...$75 later...and a lesson learned. I post this to expose my stupidity and hope that it may prevent one of you from making the same mistake. Must admit though, I loved playing with this shattered filter...LOL!