Highway 3 in Alberta, about 1km west of the Monarch turn-off.

Digitally modified using NIK Color Efex Pro - this is an old sheep barn, near Buffalo Wyoming (Sept 2012)

This photo of an aspen stand was first processed in Photoshop, then treated with the Fractalius filter. I think the end result looks very much like a silk-screen print.

Photo painting with my tablet and software

Fractalius butterfly #1

This image was created back in 2009, when I used it in a calendar. It was created in Photoshop. The semi-transparent border and solid white line were added on top, with a mask applied to remove the unwanted bits.

This image was created back in 2009, when I used it in a calendar. It was created in Photoshop. The semi-transparent border and solid white line were added on top, with a mask applied to remove the unwanted bits. It has appeared in the Western Showcase Gallery at the Calgary Stampede.

This image was created back in 2009, when I used it in a calendar. It was created in Photoshop. The semi-transparent border and solid white line were added on top, with a mask applied to remove the unwanted bits.

The Killdeer in spring. This was taken with the 2x extender on my 100-400 lens, and some photoshop posterization has been added to sharpen the contrast around the edges.

Bull Fighter. Received honourable mention in the Rodeo category of the Calgary Stampede Photo Contest - 2013. Created using the Google-NIK plug-ins in combination with Photoshop.

Playing around with textures and extractions from photos I've taken. This was created in Photoshop but also used NIK Color Efex filters.

Fractalius filter applied to some blue harebells

A young cougar in it's first snow. Converted to pen-and-ink style drawing in Photoshop. For photos of cougars, please see my Gallery on "North American Big Cats" in the Wildlife section.

Fractalius butterfly #2

This image was created back in 2009, when I used it in a calendar. It was created in Photoshop. The semi-transparent border and solid white line were added on top, with a mask applied to remove the unwanted bits.

This image was created back in 2009, when I used it in a calendar. It was created in Photoshop. The semi-transparent border and solid white line were added on top, with a mask applied to remove the unwanted bits.

This photo of a bighorn ram has been digitally altered - through the use of photoshop filters. It will print more like a poster than a standard photograph.

The Lower Falls at Artist Point in Yellowstone National Park. Digitally modified to give a lithographic type feel.

Electric Ram (created with the Fractalius filter from Redfield Plugins).

Hoop Dancer. Received honourable mention in the First Nations category of the Calgary Stampede Photo Contest - 2013. Created in Photoshop and Corel Painter.

Artistic filters in photoshop applied to a photo of the salmon run at Goldstream Provincial Park in BC (November 2011)

This image was created back in 2009, when I used it in a calendar. It was created using 4 layers in Photoshop - the original photo was duplicated so the warmth and saturation of foreground and background could be controlled separately. Then the transparent border and solid white line were added on top, with a mask applied to remove the unwanted bits.

This image was created back in 2009, when I used it in a calendar. It was created in Photoshop. The semi-transparent border and solid white line were added on top, with a mask applied to remove the unwanted bits. It has appeared in the Western Showcase Gallery at the Calgary Stampede.

This image was created back in 2009, when I used it in a calendar. It was created in Photoshop. The semi-transparent border and solid white line were added on top, with a mask applied to remove the unwanted bits.

The original is a close-up of the nose of a hippo - copied, rotated and flipped (x4) and run through Fractalius and Topaz Simplify (oil painting).