warp-speed red-billed tropicbird
I photographed this red-billed tropicbird on July 12, 2008 near Matinicus Rock while on a birding trip sponsored by the Maine Audubon Society. This bird is extremely unusual for the Gulf of Maine, there is only one at Matinicus, it is very sleek with a long tail streamer, and flies very fast. OK, maybe not warp-speed, but fast. I wanted to capture its speed in this image, which started with the original and was then processed in Photoshop using several Nik Color Efex filters.