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Passagrill Beach, St. Petersburg, FL, a late afternoon at the end of April 2016. Rather overcast, and not too many people in the water. But, still, any day at the beach is a fine one, right? The original image was digitally given a somewhat painterly effect, and the colors altered to relieve some of the grayness of the day. Also the guy and the seagull at the far left were both moved closer in, so as to form a more pleasing grouping. As it was quite a long shot, the entire lower half of the picture (which was all sand) was deleted to make the picture more panoramic in style.

Use coupon code SBNMFD thru October 31, 2013 for 15% off artist markup!!! Back home in Florida ten years now, after 30-plus years in a VA suburb of Washington, DC, I retired in 2002 after working for the federal government as a report editor also doing desktop publishing and graphic design. I have always loved all kinds of art, beginning when I was three with fingerpaint, which I found so much less restrictive than coloring books. I was a shutterbug as a child, with my Brownie box camera but, since getting my first digital camera, have been shooting anything and everything and digitally manipulating the images, often with surprising results. Sometimes, instead of modifying a photograph, I start from scratch, resulting in some of my...