Bird in the Grass (Cutout Filter)

I was digging back in the archives for this photo (which comes from 2009, when I was shooting with my Canon XTi.) I think that the bird is a heron, or possibly some kind of crane. It was a blurry picture (I did fire off a few more in which I could see that the bird had a light colored neck) and as such was quite disappointing. Yet, when I applied Adobe's Cutout Filter to the file, the blurriness goes away (as does much of the detail in the photo when you look at it full size). I do like the way that the Cutout Filter renders the photo, almost in a cartoon format, with all sorts of "cutout" shapes. It's cool, if you like that sort of thing (like I do). Thanks for stopping by!