Avocet

[Paul Lagasi]

This is one of my images from a recent trip to Manitoba and Saskatchewan...I was searching for Piping Plovers, walking along a gravel road thru Chaplin Lake.
I must have gotten a little to close to their nest, these 2 Avocets started buzzing me...giving me lots of chance with my 300 to get some great flight images.

Image Cropped in CS5, then I used Fotosketcher to creat a watercolor and add a frame.

Thanks for looking...I'll post original tomorrow in this thread

[denise ippolito]

Paul, Lucky! I love the image and the filtering looks great. The frame is a classic Paul L. Looks like it's hanging on your wall already- it would be on mine by now! I might try to clean up the edge of the top wing if it were mine, Glad you had a great trip!

[Judy Howle]

Very nice processing Paul. I agree with Denise about the top of the wing. I like the frame!

[Indranil Sircar]

Very nice painting, Paul. It certainly is a wall hanging; very nice framing.

[Brendan Dozier]

Wonderful painting effect on this, Paul. Like the frame too! Wish the image was a little larger, but nice work!

[Cheryl Slechta]

Paul, beautiful bird and great painterly look. The frame is great!

[Mark Fuge]

Nice image and application, Paul.

Good capture and effects.