pelicans

don't hate me because i can't afford a great slide scanner! ;-) i

floated in grand teton national park's oxbow river bend for a few days

shooting pelicans in a leaky canoe with a second rate lens and finally

got a reasonable close-up. i then found the image to be "dead on

arrival" when it arrived on my computer screen. the only thing to do

was to go to work in photoshop to attempt to RE-create the beauty i'd

seen that day. what i'm pushing toward is a carl brenders kind of

painterly realism. discuss.