Flutterby! : flippin’ the bird

Dan took some nice pictures while walking around San Francisco today. He snapped this picture:

Dan's Original

which I liked, but I thought could use a bit more oomph. So, I fired up gimp, cut the bird out, and manipulated the contrast of the bird and the background separately, and came up with this.

My Remixl

Probably overdid the blacks and whites, but I was only really goofing around. I really like The Gimp.