The Ocean's Roar

Every day is a different day We have arrived at our holiday rental house on the coast in St. Augustine.  Compared to the aquarium pattern of the waves from a few days ago, the ocean roars thunderously all the time. Here's an image that I created as I tested all the filters in Topaz, to make sure the license keys were working.

Reflections Catch Fire

Reflections on Fire

Florida has so much water.  One looks out and sees the ocean, inland waterways, and small rivers and ponds beside the highway.  This water was inside at the Marine Aquarium with a little bit of reflecting light from the overhead neon signs.  I used the Topaz Glow filter to amplify it and electrify it.  

Neonized and Electrified

Electric Lines The Toronto Convention Centre has a series of neon sculptures along its walkways.  I've take a lot of pictures there.  One can do blurred motion images using slow shutter speeds.  The resulting pictures look like flowing fabric.  Other approaches are focusing in on the glowing abstract lines.  I took a few of the glowing abstract line images and put them through one of Topaz' software filters - Topaz Glow.  It adds electric neon lines to images. So neon's been given the neon effect - it looks like fossilized minerals to me.