Special Effects

I'd never seen this bird before -- a lovely deep, dusky indigo songbird. (I've done my best to normalize the colors before posting, but unfortunately, I shot it in "vivid" mode so the colors are inaccurate.)

Eastern Grosbeak

Here I tried to capture the luminescence of moon behind clouds, an effect I seem to recall seeing in some Asian pottery:

moon in clouds

The frog was very patient for its close-up, but was curiously difficult to capture in the available light:

frog at night