BARN SWALLOWS

Stopped by my sister's house today and took a few pics of the barn swallows.

FORT ONTARIO, OSWEGO NY

This past weekend, I was up in Oswego NY with some time to kill.  We drove around looking for a place to photograph and came across Fort Ontario.  Before this weekend, I didn't know the place existed.  It is a star-shaped fort dating back to the early 1840's with 1863 – 1873 improvements.  The site includes several underground artillery casemates, rifle galleries, east and west guardhouses and storehouse, among other buildings.  The place served as a camp in the United States for victims of the Nazi Holocaust under the special order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

http://nysparks.com/historic-sites/20/details.aspx

Some pics from our visit...

 

This "soldier" politely asked if anyone was adverse to loud noises and of course we all said no.  He proceeded to shoot his rifle out this window...it was SOOOOO LOUD; almost knocked us off our feet!  We were underground and the sound was loud as it bounced off the walls of the underground chambers.  He then continued to fire another shot.  We decided to get out of there...

 

Not sure what happened to this guy...

 

This girl looked a little out of place at Fort Ontario...

Goose "Out of Bounds"

Out of Bounds (OOB) is an interesting photo effect where the object or scene in the image seems to jump right out of the photo or its borders. It is a photo manipulation technique to add an illusion of 3-dimensionality to a flat photo.  This is my first 'out of bounds' photo created using Adobe Photoshop CS6.  I started with a picture of a Canadian Goose that I took in Millbrook last weekend at Innisfree Garden.  I then applied the OOB technique using masks and layers in Photoshop to make the goose look like it is "stepping out of the picture".