Monday, July 27, 2009

Monday Potpourri

More results of me carrying my camera whenever I go out the door. Today was errands day - a visit to the library and a stop at the grocery store. Between the library and the grocery store I headed over to the Cliff Walk at Marine Ave,. then went through the campus of Salve Regina University on my way back to Bellevue Ave. and the local Stop & Shop.

In the waters off the little beach at the end of Marine Ave. I noticed some black dots among the white heads of the Herring Gulls floating in the surf. As I got closer I saw that, sure enough, those black spots were the heads of Laughing Gulls. These gulls tend to spend more time far out to sea rather than close to shore, so it's rare to see them close up from land. Here's one of them.


Cutting through Salve on the way back to Bellevue Ave. I snapped another shot of a faux-Tudor building across Ruggles Ave. from the Carey Building because I like the rustic look of it, especially the patches where the stucco had peeled off showing the underlying brick; the wear somehow makes the place look more "authentic". This time I decided to play a little in Photoshop - I applied the "Dry Brush" filter to the photo, and then superimposed an "Ink Outlines" filter over it, and got the following result. I like it!


© 2009 by A. Roy Hilbinger

7 comments:

  1. I'm so glad you enjoy your photos. You always seem to have so much fun.

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  2. Laughing Gulls and Herring Gulls? Living in the midwest, I didn't even know there were various varieties of sea gulls.

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  3. I want to live in that house.

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  4. Oh, boy are there ever varieties of gulls. I think we've seen 'em all on this trip. In Dingle, we saw the Euro version of a herring gull (brown with speckles, aka "dunlin") and the raptor-sized great black-necked gull.

    Love the dry-brush effect.

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  5. Stunning photos. I love the effect the combination of filters has. Very inventive.

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  6. It's always a breath of fresh air calling in here; I like the way the water sparkles in the gull picture.

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  7. This laughing crone thinks it would be great to see the original of the old faux house! I am thinking I need to experiment a little with that darn photo shop!

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