Birding Project Update

I've been working away on my birding project.  These are digital/photo fusions.  I'm finding that the "plain" brown birds are the most complex to render.  Much more work than the brightly segmented birds.  But it's partly a proximity issue.  I've decided to let each rendering reflect how much of a particular bird I can actually see which is of course affected by how close I am to the bird.  So the Bald Eagle that was WAY up in the sky took about 5 minutes to render and these sparrows took about 5 hours each. 

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Birding Project Begins

I mentioned earlier that I've begun my year long birding project.  It's essentially an artistic marathon as it took me 4 hours to render this image of a Song Sparrow and I need to render 20 more before my walk next week.  Hmm.  So there are some details to iron out but its exciting to begin something I've been writing and thinking about for so long.