Looks like Halloween is a competitive sport in your neighborhood. Whose BOO is better! Great composite. I like the lighting effect.

Maybe psychedelic electric butterfly but the 60's were a bit ahead of my time (70's)!

I've never received "3 thumbs up" - so thank you, thank you, and thank you!

Not intended but I can see your point of view. Thanks for commenting.

Wow! Thank you. I'm probably blushing.

Thanks for the encouragement!

Thanks for the thumbs up!

Thanks! I enjoy a "painting" look on many of my images that I pp.

Thank you. I enjoy the colors and detail on the first photo.

Thanks! I was not trying for the snow dusting but I agree.

Thanks Linda. Wasn't sure if anyone would bother to read the information.

I was thinking good but I will take your "Awesome" and try to grow with it. (:

A recent creation utilizing the tools in Topaz Studio 2. Original photo taken at Lake Russell Recreation Area located in NE Georgia. Mountain Witch-alder is a "Shrub up to 21 feet tall (6.5 meters), typically about 6 feet (2 meters), densely branched; twigs are robust and have naked (no scales) terminal buds. The leaves are 1 - 5.3 inches (2.5 - 13.5 cm) long and 1.7 - 5 inches (4.2 - 12.5 cm) wide, oval to nearly round, leathery, with blunt teeth on the upper ⅔ of the leaf margins; the leaf base is rounded or broadly wedge-shaped with unequal sides; the upper leaf surface is hairless or has only a few star-shaped hairs, the lower leaf surface has star-shaped hairs; the lowest pair of veins extend for a short length as part of the margin of the leaf; some plants have a waxy coating on the lower leaf surface. Flower clusters are dense “bottlebrush” spikes held at the tips of twigs and contain many flowers. The flowers are bisexual with a bright green pistil and 18 - 32 showy, white stamens; there are no petals and the sepals are tiny and inconspicuous; the flowers are fragrant. Fruit is a beaked capsule 0.2 - 0.5 inch (0.5 - 1.3 cm) long, splitting open to expel 2 shiny, black, pointed seeds. The twigs, buds, and lower leaf surfaces are covered with star-shaped hairs." - https://georgiabiodiversity.org/natels/profile?es_id=19009

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I believe it is a barn swallow or tree swallow. They can look similiar.

Good process of putting the focus and detail on the bird. The green background brings out the colors of the bird.