Artistic Bull Elk

I traveled a lot because of my work and always took one camera with me on my business trips and some times it paid off with a good elk image or a great sunrise or sunset picture. This elk has been worked over in Photo shop with Little Ink Pot filters to give the chalk effect you see in the attached image. Usually I leave the elk images as shot except for some minor tweaking in contrast and a slight color correction but I needed a artistic image for a notebook cover I use a lot so this was the result. Many have commented on another site on this image but to me it is just an elk that was in the right place at the right time and of course I did take the camera. I will post a eastern WA sunset another time that was shot from my hotel room with the headlights showing in the unlit area and the sky looks like it was on fire. 

The little Ink Pot filters are great for artistic work on images and most of them are free. You can really do a change on a decent picture and get some nice results but it really helps if you start with a decent image rather than try and save a marginal image. Also some images do not lend them selves to processing and will look like your trying to salvage an image rather than applying an artistic process.