july 2005
metro zoo, miami, florida, us
canon powershot sd400, optical zoom
corel photo-paint 12, coreldraw 12

i shot the flamingos at least a dozen times until i one posed just right for the "s" in this photo. used the magic wand in corel photo-paint to select the areas i wanted in color, inverted the selection, then converted the rest of the photo to grayscale. used corel draw to add truetype font "phyllisd" for the rest of my name, skewed the letters left until they were vertical, and manually kerned for optimal spacing. created font fill from the flamingo's feathers and outlined the letters in tropical pink from the default cmyk palette. finished off with a plain, 1-point white border just placed inside the outer border of the photo. wish i'd taken it higher res.