Resurrection

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Resurrection, originally uploaded by Jersey Rich.

This is a wild daffodil that was growing by an old building on our farm. I used GIMP (Genu Image Manipulation Program) to clone and colorize the background. I used the quick mask tool to isolate the flower and the border from the background. After colorizing the background I inverted the selection and burned in the edges of the flower to darken them and also used the blur tool to blend it smoothly into the background. As I final step I used the paint tool at low opacity to add a hint of the background color on various areas of the flower. The entire process took about 4hrs to complete. I'm self taught, so most of the time is spent using the undo and redo until I get the combination that I want. I'm happy with the results of this effort.

MercyMe - I can only Imagine

I authored this video. It's a combination of video and still shots. I used Ulead Video Studio (Now owned to Corel). This video was part of a compilation of various themes that I created as part of a Mother's day tribute. I hope you enjoy it.

I Can Only Imagine

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas, originally uploaded by Jersey Rich.

Merry Christmas to everyone. One important fact to remember is the Jesus is the reason for the season.

This was a time exposure. I triggered the camera with the remote and had it set to a long exposure time. This was strictly by trial and error. After I got the exposure time nailed down, I started playing with drawing various shapes. I tried to imagine a big poster board mounted in front of me and knew that this would be one long line of light. I was pretty happy with the results. Enjoy your holdiays......God Bless All!!!

A Charlie Brown Christmas Tree?

A Charlie Brown Christmas Tree?, originally uploaded by Jersey Rich.

Winter finally arrived. We had an ice storm that coated everything. This plant was heavily coated with ice. Many of the plants would break and parts of them would fall off when you touched them. I was able to capture a lot of good shots. Later in the afternoon the sun broke thru the clouds and the beautiful ice was gone within a half an hour.

Looking into the Sun

Looking into the Sun, originally uploaded by Jersey Rich.

I only wish that I had a wider angle lens to capture the entire circle. This was shot using a Tamron 18-200 looking straight up. I keep the grid display turned on in my D80 so that I can try to align items such as this one.

Shy

This was from our recent trip to Florida. Taken in the Animal Kingdom at Disney, I found this guy/girl? off in a corner of the pond. I retouched and increased the saturation, added a blur filter, and increased the contrast to bring out the black in the beak and also darken the background shadows.

The image on the left is the original and the one on the right was the result of my editing efforts in Photoshop6. Why PS6? Because I got it for free! I've posted the image to a number of different group pools in Flickr and it's gotten many goood comments and awards. Personally, I didn't think it was all that good. I didn't like the way the edges of the trees looked with the gradiant I applied. I'm working on a couple of other ideas and will be posting them here.