Something Large - Let's Do 52 - Week 7

Elephant Portrait

"Something Large"

Photo Processing :

1) Jai Johnson Texture as background - Sunrise Over the Marsh

2) My own photo of a taxidermied elephant (sorry--I wish it had been alive in a natural habitat) at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.  Weird to see an elephant indorrs with the balcony in the background.

       I cut it out carefully (digitally) and made a clipping mask, then laid it on the JJ background

3) Merge visible layers

4) Topaz Impression - Rembrandt Portrait Filter

           Who knew this treatment / filter also worked for animals?

I am really happy with the way this turned out!

Here's my original elephant photo for contrast.
And to think this was a photo I considered deleting : What the heck do you do with an elephant indoors at such a goofy angle?

I have to say I DO love elephants, and other large animals like whales and Newfie dogs.  Someday I want to go to the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee to see them up close. 

Once again, I am participating in Denise Love's 2018 "Let's Do 52 : 52 Weeks of Photo Prompts" to kick start the lull in my photography.   If you'd like to join us, find out more at the link above.  The more the merrier!

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Prehistoric - What some Kid Left in the Park

Small and Large

This photo covers 2 prompts in one.  It's one of those little plastic dinosaurs -- small in scale but representing something much larger.  I can just imagine the colossal battles this kid played out with this T. Rex other dinos.   Imagination!

I thought this looked remarkably lifelike -- at least for a diorama.


I am participating in Denise Love's 2017 "Let's Do 52 : 52 Weeks of Photo Prompts" to kick start the lull in my photography.   If you'd like to join us, find out more at the link above.  The more the merrier!