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Parakeet and palette ~

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El perico

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El perico – crop

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Palette 2-11-16

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The face in the paint

Since I’m also taking Spanish, I decided to use Spanish for the title of my little class painting today. The parakeet needs more work, but is, I think, at least identifiable as some kind of bird. But I’m feeling very excited about doing the close-ups. I needed something like this just now to get back to taking photographs. Can’t always be on a road trip. And I can do this no matter how cold or nasty it gets outside!

Playing with the clouds ~

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The clouds turned glorious tonight for just a brief spell. I was in the strip-mall hell of east Carbondale, but I found a place to pull over and get some unobstructed shots. The top two I only color-corrected. The bottom one I exaggerated for a painterly effect. There’s way too much color noise in this photo, but I’m not yet proficient enough in Photoshop to have improved it much. I should have chosen a lower ISO. Fuji X10.