In this era of digital photography, (or should I say digital images, to be politically correct), the image editing software play a very interesting role. Not only you can enhance the pictures by adjusting the brightness, contrast and color balance, but you can also create things that were not there. Sometimes the manipulations are obvious to see, and other times not. Here are couple of examples. The "Resting Rhinos" was created from two pictures taken at the Pittsburgh Zoo in 1987. I liked taking picture of animals, and used to visit that zoo often when I was a student at the Carnegie-Mellon University. There were only two white rhinos there, not four. Rest was the trick of the image editing software. The one below is generated from a picture taken last month at the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival.

You can click on a picture to see a larger view in a pop-up window. Here are the links to the photopages of the last few weeks : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 .