Another image inspired from recently reading Michael Crichton's book, "Micro".

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Santa Fe Province -- Argentina

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~~~~ taken through the window of a moving bus.

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°°°° My own photo digitally manipulated and painted.

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Uploaded on September 19,2017

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Manipulated photo. Nieuwe Herengracht.

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The use of this photo is allowed only with written authorization of Svante Oldenburg

I spotted this heron perched up high on a tree branch at Cootes Paradise (RBG) either drying off or cooling off as it was a hot day. I found its stance being quite unusual from that of other birds, which simply stretch out their wings, and thought I would place it on a beach as just another "sun worshiper". Herons are known to frequent both fresh and salt open water and marshes and as such it only adds more credence for not being too far fetched an idea. I hope this image doesn't offend due to the devastation currently incurred in the Caribbean Islands and the coast of the United States but rather to be looked at as a humorous note on an otherwise unusual bird stance. The image of the beach is from a 2009 vacation in Cuba.

Profile in the nature

Used: Photoshop - Filter Forge - Pixabay

I made - and then manipulated - this shot nearly ten years ago, but resisted posting to Flickr because it generally doesn't fit with the body of work here. Most of my work is in focus, with attention paid to detail. Not much detail to be found here!

I think this image is closer to cave paintings than 21st Century photography. Well... that was my intent. For the next week or so I'm going to be posting shots that break the mold, crack the cosmic egg, fly in the face of everything I used to teach when I taught nature and wildlife photography. They'll either work for you or they won't.

I knew that with each of these attempts I was risking failure, and that to fail is a good thing. If we don't shoot a lot of really bad stuff, we probably aren't trying hard enough to push through and past our limitations. When I used to teach photography, sometimes I would insist on seeing bad photos from my students. This was a way of getting them more deeply into process without worrying about trying to be perfect; seeing comes before technique. Let's see what you can see today! And because I always (or usually) take my own advice... here are some results that I do like from all of my shoving and thrashing inside the box over the years. Gathered together so they won't seem out of place. Early in the new year I'll return to my wildlife ways. Promise. For now, a little fun.

Photographed near Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada) with a slow shutter to intentionally blur my subject, then heavily manipulated in Photoshop. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 2009 James R. Page - all rights reserved.

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Bowie,

Used: Pixabay bowie-1152551_1280 - Studio Art - Photoshop

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Cows on the top

Digital manipulation of a photo of a stack of banquet tables.

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The sad twins,

used: Filter Forge, Pixabay, Photoshop

I'm indulging an abstract obsession. Again. :D

The seed image for this was the previous picture in my photostream, "Waterfront Stairway In Winter".

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Very young fisherman,

used Pixabay - Filter Forge - Photoshop

Model: www.deviantart.com/cathleentarawhiti/art/Alexa-1-jpeg-and...

An older photo when I visited Colorado in 2021.

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The Dancers

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Textures Only ~ Comp #117

Original image with thanks to Falcon1961

texture by Nasos3:

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few brushes "antique funriture" and more....

white dancer by faestock on deviantART:

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I figured the scariest Halloween image I could come up with was my own physiognomy. Of course, I did have to give myself a bit of a run through Photoshop Elements and load a bunch of layers and stuff on top of it, and at no time did I have any idea what the final product would look like; and the only reason I quit was because I ran out of time, or who knows what this would have ended up looking like? Anyway, it was fun, and that's all I care about.