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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Images From The Sponge Docks

We journeyed to Tarpon Springs this past Sunday and enjoyed lunch at Dimitri's On The Water. Afterwards we wandered along the sponge docks for a bit. Below are a few scenes from that walk (click on an image to enlarge).

Diving For Popcorn
Passing tourists had tossed some popcorn for the seagulls moments earlier and then moved on. We stood quietly as the gulls came swooping in. I just shot from the hip with my trusty Canon PowerShot A720 IS and captured this gull in flight. One keeper, and 12 deletions. Not a bad percentage!

The next two images were going to be throw-aways until I decided to play with my new Corel software: PaintShop Photo Pro X3, and Painter Photo Essentials 4. With these two experiments, I don't miss MicroGrafx Picture Publisher quite as much (wasn't compatible with Win 7 even in capatibility mode).

Seagull in Classic Oil

Colored Pencil Drawing
It was quite entertaining watching the painting process as these two photo images were converted. One of these days I will have to read the instruction book to see what else Corel can do.



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