Inspiring Photo: Sinuous Snow Flake #9569017

Sinuous Snow Flake

Uploaded: December 16, 2009

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MERRY CHRISTMAS Photo Members!

Oh How I Love This
FUN FRAC FILTER!

This Is A Snow Flake
FROM OUR TREE.

I will include the original.

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TV 1/8, AV 2.8
MACRO HAND HELD
FRAC FILTER, CROP.
(DDR) 1209

Exif: F Number: 2.8, Exposure Bias Value: 0.00, ExposureTime: 1/8 seconds, Flash: did not fire, compulsory flash mode, White balance: Auto white balance, FocalLength: 4.60 mm, Model: Canon PowerShot SD800 IS

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Laura E. Swan December 16, 2009

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John Connolly December 16, 2009

Real beaut work here Laura! I see you are having a ball with your frac filter!
Some people just can't get enough snow flakes....LOL! #8223962

Ann Coates December 16, 2009

It's amazing what you can do with that frac filter. Very creative and beautiful Laura. #8224078

Nancyj E. Hovey December 16, 2009

Beautiful colors, Laura...wow....nice fun in DDR & frac! 8o) #8224096

Tammy Espino December 16, 2009

This is beautiful work!! :) Love those colors
The nakey cowboy is a cowboy who plays guitar down in time's square in his underware, cowboy boots and hat and is famous world wide, Close your eyes Ms.Nun!! #8224199

Sherran Andersen December 16, 2009

Very creative... is this filter expensive? #8224259

Laura E. Swan December 16, 2009

Hi John, Ann, Nancyj, Tammy and Sherran!

This filter was a B-day gift and is a plug in. It is compatible with my PSE7 program and likely all the other big ones too? I dont know!!! I am not sure how much they cost...I think around 45 dollars.

What is really fun about it is that the combinations are endless in the filter itself. So, one thing might look awful but keep using the sliders in different combinations, and you come up with all of these different types of effects.

If you look at this image and then go back in my gallery and see "Flaring Flake" to days back, you can see the vast difference.

I knew I'd love this filter and I will also love Topaz when I get it one day.

Thanks all, very much, and that is very interesting about the cowboy in his "unders"...!!! HA! MY EYES ARE CLOSED.

SEE NIR I M TYING WITH HEN CLOSED.

HA!
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Maria Warren December 16, 2009

WOW SIS. THIS IS AN GREAT AND SO PRETTY PHOTO LOVE IT THE COLOR IS VERY NICE AND THE EFFECT IS VERY NICE TOO WOW NICE WORK :)

(((HUGS))) #8224371

Maria Warren December 16, 2009

A FAVORITE FOR SURE:) #8224379

Monnie Ryan December 16, 2009

Topaz is great -- that one I've got -- but the frac filter is just something else, Laura! WOW! What a transformation. Outstandingly cool! #8224381

Ron McEwan December 16, 2009

Outstanding piece of art work here Laura. Love it, I may be interested in the Topaz. I just finished working on HDR my first. Got a ways to go yet I think. #8224561

Brett Dolsen December 16, 2009

Beautifull Christmas Art and love the colours Laura!!Brett #8224604

Liz blahh December 16, 2009

Beautifully done! #8224823

Patrick Rouzes December 16, 2009

Someone is having fun with that filter & doing a magnificent job with it! Another beautiful job here, Swanee! I see some December WINNERS in your gallery ,my friend! WTG! #8224851

Nancy J. Locke December 16, 2009

WOW!!! FANTABULOUS, Laura!!!

Love your photography. :D

Happy Holidays, Nancy J Locke #8225411

Stephen Zacker December 17, 2009

Super cool. You are indeed having fun with this filter #8225785

ROLAN NARMAN December 17, 2009

Outstanding work with your friend fractalius Lulu! Lovely Christmas fun! #8226262

Renata Gusciora December 17, 2009

Wow!Another awesome work,Laura!Incredible and unique effects! #8226751

Laura E. Swan December 17, 2009

Isn't this FUN you guys? I am so tickled that you all like it!

Thank you Little Sister Maria, Sweet Monnie, Ron, Brett, Liz, Paddy, Nancy L, Steve, Bro-lan and Renata!

I'm really tickled! Thank you so much for all that you said.

The Frac Filter is a wicked tool to have in an artists arsenal! HA!

GET ONE!!!

-Laura :D

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Kirsten Kiki Kjaer December 18, 2009

AMAzing image, SSSLala. I can understand why you love this filter. And the colors are soooo lovely.
P.S. I love the original too. Very beautifully captured. Not a detail missed!!! #8230296

Laura E. Swan December 18, 2009

Thank you SSSKiki!!!

!!! #8232228

Carol L. Fowler December 20, 2009

The frac filter is so PERFECT for this. You don't MIND ME capitalizing LETTERS, DO YOU? IT is SO ConAgeOUS when I READ all the CAPTIONS and RESPONSES!! LOL! #8235527

Laura E. Swan December 20, 2009

tHaNk YoU!!!

nO. nOt At AlL cArOl!

i KnOw It Is. TeLl Me AbOuT iT.

-lAuRa :F
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Nancyj E. Hovey December 24, 2009

on your very deserving EFP! 8o)

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Laura E. Swan December 29, 2009

Wow! What a beautiful congratulations!!!

Thanks you so much, Nancyj!!!

-Laura :) #8255256

Irene Colling December 30, 2010

Creative transformation of the ornament Laura. The shape of the snow flake is clearly defined but you've added interest with the fract filter.

Nice work Laura. #9133659

Susan Weisensel December 30, 2010

This is very cool Laura, can you buy that plug in at Best Buy and do you just load it on your computer if you already have PSE7? #9133665

Laura E. Swan December 30, 2010

You know I just LOVE that filter, Irene! It wasn't bought in a store but online for my birthday in 2009. I looked high and low in BEST and other places and always found it online instead. Under 50 dollars. It uploads as a plug in on PSE7. Didn't this one turn out looking like YARN? The Fract filter could have done a thousand different LOOKS with this....PSE7 DDR is hours of fun and discovery if a person has the time. It has always been rewarding. Time well spent! :)))

Thanks lots and HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU!

-Laura #9133681

Laura E. Swan December 30, 2010

Susan, the above is meant for you, too! Sorry! :))) Irene and I have so many DDR conversations that I just began to prattle! :))) !!! #9133685

Susan Weisensel December 30, 2010

Thank you Laura, now what web site do I go to to find it:) #9133743

Laura E. Swan December 30, 2010

Here is the site!!! :) Copy and paste to browser!

http://www.redfieldplugins.com/Downloads.htm

Wonderful site!

SADLY if you have a MAC you are out of luck for FRACT. Hope you have windows! #9133747

Susan Weisensel December 30, 2010

Thanks so very much Laura and yes I have windows. #9133764

Laura E. Swan December 30, 2010

GOOD. You get ON IT GIRL and treat yourself to it!

AND NOW, in 2011, ... (DRUM ROLL) ... THE FUN BEGINS! #9133846

Kitty R. Rodehorst-Hanna December 30, 2010

This is one awesome snowflake, NL! Ya done good girl!

I understand that ALL your BP friends are invited to your house for a shoot! I sure hope you have a big enough home for everyone! LOLOLOL
:-) NN #9133983

Kathy Salerni December 30, 2010

Whoa, outstanding work with the frac filter, Laura! I love this filter! You snowflake is so cool! Hope your New year is full of happiness! #9134177

Laura E. Swan December 30, 2010

Oh YES Kitty Girl. Sweetest in the entire NB range. ALL of you are invited. I have guest houses galore and have been up for days sewing and making beds and sleeping bags while Dale builds TeePee's and cots.

Heyyyyyy wait! THAT was a DAY DREAM! BUT come on up anyway and we will get the old pink tour bus fired up and we will SEE IT ALL! MISS ROSE promises! :) So long as the motor starts!

Hi Kathy! Loved your remarks, and thank you very much!

I HOPE YOUR NEW YEAR IS FULL OF HAPPINESS, TOO! :) !!!

-Laura :) #9134185

Dick W. Wyatt December 31, 2010

Great fun effects !!

HAPPY NEW YEAR !
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Laura E. Swan January 10, 2011

Thank You Dick!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! :) #9152979

Theresa Marie Jones January 12, 2011

Wow! Beautiful! Love it! #9158995

Laura E. Swan December 04, 2011

Thank You CRC Sister! :D #9847845

Emile Abbott December 06, 2011

I believe you have been Fracing up Laura. Nice use of the filter. I have not used it before. #9851044

Lana Arcemont December 15, 2013

Outstanding Work and Lovely Colors! #10922777

Laura E. Swan December 15, 2013

HeeHee...RIGHT, Emile :))))) It is SUCH a fun filter!!!

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Hi Lana, Thank you and I appreciate the visit. :)

-Laura

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JO ANN CLEVELAND December 16, 2013

Love it Laura! I have that filter too and it creates so real beauties and this one is perfect!

jo ann c. #10923174

Mary K. Robison December 19, 2013

How I wish I could have/buy that filter, Pom!! In the right hands (yours), the results are marvelous. It's a wonderful example of how the choice of effects can jump a photo from pleasing to superb!
WIN-WIN-WINNER!!!
And, again:
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and Dale and everybody else who you care about, which means Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone on the planet! #10925154

Laura E. Swan December 21, 2013

Hi Jo Ann, Mare and Mr. Tree :) - I love the Fractalius Filter lots. It really only seems to work well with certain things.

Birds, Cats, Wood, Flowers and objects with sharp feathers.

It looks terrible on people and faces unless they are background crowds and finely tuned. Looks bad on a lot of things actually. HeeHee...

I loved the results of this one, too. Thank you all so much.

!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

Love, Miss Rosey Pom :D

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Lydia Williams December 21, 2013

This is gorgeous!!! Love it! #10927044

Michelle Tinger December 22, 2013

awesome image #10927611

Laura E. Swan December 22, 2013

Thank you Big Sister Lydia and Michelle! I had fun making this one!!

* * * MERRY CHRISTMAS! * * * #10927626

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