Too many swamp shots lately, I needed to mix it up a bit. The most opposite environment to photograph here is the shore, and everyone’s favorite the Pelicans.

This series also seemed like a good place to work in a new editor for image processing. For probably close to two years I have tried various different software to use as a backup to the usual Adobe Lightroom industry standard.

This series was done using ON1 and Topaz. As an editor ON1 has the ability to work with just about any RAW format as well as any other image file format. That’s a requirement for me. I like to use other systems as plugins. Lightroom always has interfaced with most other systems, ON1 does too. Most RAW editors don’t. Theres a reason Adobe owns the market. I love Lightroom, I just get frustrated with how sluggish it gets. ON1 is certainly not slow.

Nerd stuff aside; Brown Pelicans breed on the small barrier islands off the coast of the Lowcountry. They are one of the smaller Pelicans, but also one of only two that catch fish by diving from above.

Brown Pelicans off the Stono River inlet, South Carolina.