Tam Ryan

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Nature and Wildlife Photographer Published in Arizona Highways Magazine, Arizona Desert Views Magazine's Calendar and Nature Conservancy among other publications. Tam Ryan has lived in the Southwestern United States for over forty years. Her interests center on the region's unique attributes, especially its vast landscapes and bird wildlife. Tam Ryan's other interests include abstracts in nature, architecture, desert flora, and cacti.

Saturday, January 6, 2018

Photo Art

I have been experimenting with two photo editing tools for creating photo art, Dreamscopeapp.com, and PhotoScape.org

Dreamscopeapp.com converts the images to many types of art styles. The images are a very small JPEG which makes it okay for using on small product items created in my Zazzle.com product store (TamRyanPhoto) or small items on my website, www.tamryan.com.

Dreamscope Images made from my photos of birds and one of some visitors to the Sedona airport view during the sunset.











PhotoScape.org is a photo editing tool which has many options for editing such as converting a photo to an art piece using a Colored Pencil or Watercolor Pencil filter: 
















Great Egret Bathing at Gilbert Water Ranch

On January 5, 2018, about twenty Great Egrets and a couple of Snowy Egrets showed up at pond 2 at Gilbert Water Ranch in Gilbert, Arizona. They were mostly resting. But, this particular Great Egret was sitting low in the water until it finally dipped its head in the pond to start a bathing ritual. These are a few of the images that I captured during that morning.




PUBLISHED in Arizona Game and Fish Calendar 2024

My photo of two juvenile Black-necked Stilts was pubished in the 2024 Arizona Game and Fish Calendar. The image won an Honorable Mention an...