Pine Martin

[Paul Lagasi]

On a recent trip to Algonquin Park, I walked around the Spruce Boardwalk and just happened upon this Pine Martin. It was peaking at me from around the trunk of a tree, bouncing back and forth from left to right. These guys are fast but darn cute. I finally managed on decent photo.

I used Topaz Clean again, seems to be one of my favourite effects....
Thanks for looking

[Judy Howle]

I love it Paul! I never heard of a pine martin. I guess we don't have them here. I like the Clean filter too and it works well for the adorable martin.

[Rachel Hollander]

Paul - he's a cutie and you captured a great pose. The filter works well. Nicely done.

TFS,
Rachel

[Cheryl Slechta]

Hi, Paul, he is adorable and Clean filter works great on him and the tree. I like the fact that the background looks like camo I love all the earth tones also.

[Dennis Bishop]

Great work. The eyes are perfectly place vertically, the background is nicely out of focus, the colors work very well together, and the image is so engaging. The contrast in textures between the critter and the bark adds a lot, and I like your use of Clean.

[Paul Lagasi]

Thank You All

[Mitch Carucci]

Great underlying pic, and really nice processing.

[Steve Adkins]

Awesome capture and processing, Paul!

[Nancy Bell]

A Pine Marten is so coool! The "clean" filter works very well, highlighting the lovely fur of the pine marten, even the toe nails, and smoothing out distracting details of the tree and bkgd. Love the bright eyes and soft colors!

[gary ellwein]

The basic image nicely stands alone. The colors and textures work. The Topaz Clean accentuates the fur, claws and eyes. I must try some of the Topaz products. They appear to be a mainstay of the OOTB group.