robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Cardinal In Winter
My Aunt and Uncle's front yard in Kentucky

My Aunt passed on the 14th and I am gathering pictures of her and her family that I promised to send to my cousins. While going through the archives I found this one from her front yard in Western Kentucky Jan 1, 2006. Snow on the ground and a small flock of Cardinals was in the yard hunting in the snow and trees for food.

We went back to spend Christmas with my family. Checked into the Airport Hilton in St Louis late Christmas Eve amid snow flurries and woke up to a White Christmas spent at my Dad's house. First White Christmas for the two younger kids. Then over the next couple of weeks we rented an SUV with 4WD and drove to Chicago, down to Kentucky for New Years and back to St Louis then flew home to California. Snow everywhere we went from 1" to about 8" depending on the place and day. The kids loved it.

Sigma SD10, Sigma 100-300 @ 300, 1/400 @ f/6.3, ISO 800
I gave it the PS Oil Painting filter because between the extreme crop and ISO the noise was real bad in download. Remember this is a 16 year old 10 MP model so ISO 800 was pushing it a bit.

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DOOK Loc: Maclean, Australia

Very nice, Jerry.

Dixiegirl Loc: Alabama gulf coast

Pretty cardinal portrait, Jerry, and I'm so sorry about your aunt's passing.

kpmac Loc: Ragley, La

I like it.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Thanks

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Thank You Very Much

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Thank you

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

Nice shot Jerry.

Chuckwal Loc: Boynton Beach Florida

Cool brush
chuck

amyinsparta Loc: White county, TN

That is really great!

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Thanks

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Thanks, discovered it by accident. I was looking for a way to hide really bad noise in a hummingbird shot. I didn't like the look of any of the NIK filters and I just decided to reduce noise then noticed "Stylize" on the Filter menu.
PS>Filter>Stylize>Oil Paint and you get a menu to adjust the effect 6 different ways. Plus you can do it multiple times to the same image and it increases the effects each time.

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Thanks very much.

Pysanka Artist Loc: Rochester, NY

I like what you've done with your image!

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Thank you so much