The next interior has two images, one on either side. Here’s the first one. Someone taking the team picture. This same picture is also used on the cover.
A Basketball Story – Interior 6, Left Side
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Red Tulip
Okay, so this has been fiddled with, but not that much. I masked out the blossom and upped the vibrance and saturation by 10 each. Then I lowered the saturation for everything else by 40-something.
I really like the striation on the petals between the red and almost-beige parts. I thought it was interesting.
It’s also not a standard tulip. It’s some fancy breed with funny petals, but it’s still a tulip.
The Neighborhood Hawk Came Back
I had a wild neighbor pay a visit to my back fence a couple days ago. He came by around this time last year too, so maybe it’s an annual visit. This time I only got one decent shot of him.
Here’s a close-up of his head. Same image, just cropped and auto contrasted.
Robin’s Eggs
Baby Hare in the Tall Grass
It’s spring. So, I poked around under the tall grass in the corner of the yard. And, sure enough, look what I found! A baby hare. 
Photomanipulation: Butterfly on Flowers
I was playing with Photoshop today and photomanipulated this. It should look like a realistic butterfly perched on a watercolor-ish flower cluster. What do you think?
The butterfly is a Red Admiral (Vanessa atalanta). I’m not sure what the flower is, but it’s one of those common landscaping flowers you see in planters and beds all over the place. I took this photo at a mini-golf course last summer in Sister Bay, Wisconsin.
Karen B. Jones - Illustrator 