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You cross the bridge over Cow Key Channel, turn right on highway 1 which becomes Roosevelt Road, and just past the row of big high priced hotels you see the gulf waters through this screen of tall palm trees. If you are like me, from the Midwest, you turn and say, “Toto, I don’t think we are in Kansas anymore.” In the Keys, the farther South you go the farther from the south you get. One hundred miles from the Florida mainland and you might as well be in another country. You are in the Islands, mon. That is the message that this row of trees always gives to me. I can forget the real world from this point on.

This bald guy is really having a bad day. This photo was taken at Dinosaur World in Cave City Kentucky.

Great stuff you have here, Gene!
I've played with some of your filters and had much fun with them!

Fake Buzz is great ("Palms" example on this page is excellent!). I play a lot with Old Book Illustrator and Sloppy Paint Brush, some of my favourites!

Thank you for comments related to my sketch filter, I'm still working on it.
If its useful for you to create cool art like the Dinosaur World above and even more, then I'm very happy!

Scary guy ain’t he? I think I can make him scarier.

Two seven mile bridges. The new one on the left and the old one on the right. In the Keys they don't bother tearing down old bridges. They just use them to fish off of and film movies on. Arnold pulled Jamie Lee out of the car crashing off the end of the destroyed section from a helicopter. The movie people did not really blow it up. They just used the section that got blown up when the tanker truck exploded back in 1982.

I like the original photo, is that your own? I also like the colors in the modified one.

You can never miss with cats. They are so cute and fuzzy. What is that guy in the back sticking out his tongue for.

My wife took this picture in Juneau Alaska. I know I said I take all my own pictures, but I wasn't in the mood for cold weather so she went to the frozen north with her sisters. I like old stuff, so she knew I would like this one.

This last week I uploaded a couple of new filters. It has been awhile, I have been working on multiple projects and falling behind on filter making. One of the projects is adding new designs to my Tiki mask section in my t-shirt shop. Those two filters were designed specifically to aid me in creating those Tikis. This panel style mask has a nice copper color, but I wanted more.

I like old steam engines. I ride old trains as much as I can in my travels. This one was just leaving the depot. Not a bad picture.

Where I live you can see this stuff everyday if you look around. This was taken at a farm equipment and steam show.

In a couple of months this will be the view out of my dinning room window. I can hardly wait.

I've been kinda obsessed with Tiki culture lately. I added a Tiki section to my t-shirt shop and I wanted my Tiki designs to look like the real thing. I have been hanging at the Tiki Central web site where all the Tiki gurus hang out. (They are mostly from California as expected) I have been digital carving to try to mimic wood sculptures. This is my latest. It is the Tiki War God.

Hey man, slow down a little!

Anyway, the Tikis are cool. And the winter scene came out nice!

Great stuff, Gene!
I like the colorful tractor a lot!
The Tiki War God also ended up with lots of character! Nice!
Congratulations!!
(btw, just checked your t-shirt website...very cool designs there)

This is one of my wife's favorite photos. A framed version hangs on our living room wall. I like all the shadows that resulted in this late fall afternoon snap.

i like the pumpkins.

This guy wandered into my yard with his harem one day. The hens were obviously wild, but he looked like maybe his mama was tame and his pa was wild. Never seen a white wild turkey before.

i dont believe that's a wild turkey. looks like a domestic to me. the white is odd, though.

interesting effect

It has been some time since I posted in this thread. As I have mentioned before, I have a bit of an attention span problem. I'm easily distracted, kinda like a dog with a squirrel. My squirrel was an Ipad. I have been playing with many of the drawing apps on it. I'm not much of and artist, but I enjoy drawing simple cartoons, especially faces. I try to create cartoons with the fewest lines possible while still producing images with strong expression. This is a simple drawing with a little color and shading added.

I haven't uploaded any new filters recently. I got away from FF for awhile because I hit a bit of a wall in my imagination and found myself just inventing new versions of my old filters rather than coming up with new ideas. I am hoping that FF3 will inspire me to find new directions in creation. I worked this image with a couple of filters I never uploaded. I don't like doing that because I believe in the community and believe folks should contribute what they produce to keep the community alive. These are filters that were too much like other filters of mine, but I find somewhat useful at times. First I used a filter that is similar to my Fake Buzz filter. This changed the texture and color and made the background even darker and more ominous. Then I used a filter similar to my Texture Board Paint filter. I have said before if you use different noise sources in that filter you can get lots of variations. I made one with a bunch of noise nodes and did a big mixture of them. It creates a weathered scratched and scared effect. No, I did not mean for the dude to look scary. I wanted him to look kinda scared, like he just ran into something strange in a dark spooky place.


My T-shirt site .... Captured Image Design

This is another Halloween cartoon I drew on my Ipad.