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This is the original photo taken by my friend Andy.
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This is an Scaleable Vector Graphic (SVG) image of the bird. I made this with Inkscape.
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This was probably my first alteration of the photograph. It is a simple sepia filter. It looks nice, but I wanted to see what else I could do.
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Second version
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Third version
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Fourth version
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Fifth version
A bunch more versions:
A lot of tweaking of colors and other visual goodies:
Some versions of the signature seals. I used Google translate to obtain the traditional Chinese character for the phrases "Pair in a Pine", "Happy Birthday Andy" "One of two" and my signature. Then I used an online Chinese seal generator.

A fun experiment with the original