A page from the family album - WEEKLY THEME

[Nancy Bell]

This was a perfectly normal raptor (yellow-headed caracara), that I took into Pixel Bender kaleidoscope and twisted and turned this way and that. Then he was cropped, duplicated, one made small into junior, and rearranged into a family pose. The bkgd is parts from other images of mine desaturated and skewed to fit as I wanted. Then I applied a PS warming filter at 25% opacity.




PS. I just returned from a wonderful 3 weeks of birding in the Andaman Islands and the Western Ghats of southern India. Both the weather and the food was hot :S3:!

[Randall Farhy]

Gremlins! A well executed, fun image- you make it look easy...I hope you enjoyed the trip, look forward to seeing images from it.

[Dennis Bishop]

This is outstanding. The grouping is good, the background fits their shaggy coats perfectly, and the critters are just amazing. Great work.

I'm glad you're back.

[Anita Bower]

Bizarre and disturbing. Well done. The blue bg works well.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Hi, Nancy, what a great image! I love your creativity in creating the family group and especially like the background. Who would have thought that they had been caracara:S3:

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Fabulous Nancy. I like that the eyes at the bottom almost look like feet, like a new breed of penguin. Really well done!

[Diane Miller]

Wonderful!!

[Nancy Bell]

Thanks all! Jackie, I also thought these looked a bit like penguins.

[LinzRiverBalmer]

Honestly not sure how to comment or critique for this theme week... Everything is so unique it's up to personal interpretation.


Very fun and creative!! For me very gremlin like, I will have nightmares.... Lol