I took a trip to St. Catharines to hopefully see an overwintering adult male King Eider. It was my first birding trip of the winter and proved successful. Also managed to see some Fish Crows (to some this may not be a big deal but to see them in Ontario is extremely rare) near Port Erie.
The Eider was tough to see with binoculars but was easily seen using a telescope (wished I'd had a digiscoping setup) . Not easy to photograph, it was over 2 football fields away across the Welland Canal. The 500 did its best but all I got were ID images nothing worth keeping. It was ABA Bird 629 that I've photographed. Slowly getting to 650 :tinysmile_shy_t:.
The image above is from my files, taken at the Biodome in Montreal, Canada. It really shows the beauty of these Eiders and why their so sought after. The Biodome is a great place to photograph captive birds in natural surroundings.
I ran this through the free version of Pixel Bender / Oil Painting...thanks for looking
02-24-2012, 01:15 PM
Mark Fuge
Very nice image and application, Paul.
Like the effect and the bird.
02-24-2012, 05:58 PM
jack williamson
Paul this is gorgeous. You applied exactly the right amount of your technique. The colors here are awesome.
Jack
02-25-2012, 08:52 AM
denise ippolito
Paul, This came out amazing. Love the subject, water color and the effect!
02-25-2012, 12:42 PM
Maureen Allen
Lovely bird, beautiful soft processing.
02-25-2012, 09:17 PM
Bob Miller
Hi Paul....I like it alot! beautiful bird shown with perfect processing! Nice work!
02-26-2012, 01:23 AM
Dan Brown
What a great bird! I really like the PB here, Paul, so smooth. I might apply PB to the waterfall also, if it were mine.
02-26-2012, 12:21 PM
Indranil Sircar
This is awesome! Love the clean effect on the Eider! I have to find one...
02-29-2012, 08:23 PM
Andrew McLachlan
Hi Paul, lovely work! I guess I'll have to get over to the Biodome one day.
