blue heron – Loan's Little Corner

Have I ever mentioned that besides my love of taking pictures, I am also in love with “photoshop-ping” pictures. Mind you, I use only my own photographs. From time to time, whenever I am in the photoshop mood, I would scroll through my photographs collection and see what I could do to turn them into greeting cards. I use these greeting cards for my own purpose and every once in a while, sell them through art fairs. I have just recently created an account in Fine Art America to sell my photographs. This image of a sheep was created using Photoshop CS5 from the original image underneath which I took a few years ago in Charleston, SC.

Throughout the years I have been playing in Photoshop, I have learned that sometimes with just a so so picture, I could turn it into a worthy image (in my own opinion, of course) for greeting card through the use of filters. I challenge myself to use only filters which come with Photoshop. It is not for any nobly reason. It is just a way to keep down cost. If you know anything about Photoshop, you would already notice that I am still using CS5 which is ancient by Photoshop world by now. It still works for my purpose, so why spend more money?

I’ve noticed that this little hummer liked to hang around this cardinal flower stalk in my backyard. So, one day, I camped out there with my camera on a tripod, manually focus onto the flower stalk and waited for her to show up. Once she showed up, she danced around the stalk for several minutes and I just clicked until she flew away.

I took this image of a great blue heron in Chincoteague Wildlife Refuge on Virginia side.

Goldfinches love picking seeds from Coneflowers and also from Rudbeckia (Black Eye Susan). I took this picture (from my dining room window) of a pair of goldfinches perching on rudbeckia stalks and eating flower seeds. Rudbeckia flowers were in the background.

After snowstorms, I sometimes bundle up to go out for photography outings. I like to use snow images for Christmas Cards which I send to my family members and friends every year. This Japanese tea house on a lake image was taken at Brookside Garden in Wheaton, Maryland.