Theme: Untitled

[Randall Farhy]

Titmouse, winter of 2011. A Crepe Myrtle shrub in my front yard serves as a perching area for visitors to the feeder there. Going back to freeform processing, I used many filters, distortions, processing filters by topaz, layer blend modes to come up with something for this weeks theme. I've always been a fan of Salvadore Dali's distorted element style, which was the basis for this experiment. As always, C&C welcome and appreciated.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Hi, Randall, I'm a big Dali fan so I love your interpretation. The only thing I'd change is to eliminate the faint top twig coming out of the right edge behind the main branch. I especially like what happened to the background on the left

[Anita Bower]

Yes, I can see the Dali influence. Well executed. I liked the colors very much--they unify the image. A creative interpretation.

[Nancy Bell]

This had to be fun to create! I also like what happened to those background branches as they complement the swirl of the titmouse so effectively. And the color dynamics reverse, dark branches with light bkgd and the titmouse has light center with darker bkgd.

[Dennis Bishop]

I really like the colors, the flow, and the abstract quality. Nancy's comment about the reversed contrasts in tone on the left and right sides of the image highlights something else that makes this a good image. I like that little background branch on the right side because of the way it echoes the lines of the distorted titmouse.

[Randall Farhy]

Thanks again for the thoughts everyone!

Cheryl, the twig wasn't even on the radar in the original, I see what you mean though. The background turned out better than I thought it would when I started.

Anita- The colors are present in the original as well, odd how the blue sky appears as somewhat of donut hole in the middle of the frame but that's also true to the original.

Nancy- It was a lot of fun as the concept took shape quickly and flowed easily through the entire transformation which doesn't happen very often.

Dennis- Thanks- I neglected to mention that a large foreground twig was removed prior to the distortion process, doing so provided the balance mentioned.