The archive project continues with 2011. The first time I ever went to a butterfly house was on April 10, and I got my 2011 Photo of the Year there (fourth image below). Today I found six images to add to the page, including two shown. The theme for the day is extreme closeups. Also shown is an eagle that always used to roost in what I called the Eagle Tree in Custer State Park, just north of the border with Wind Cave NP. That tree was off by itself and has since been blasted apart by lighting.

There have been many changes in the way I process images since 2011. It is a time-consuming project, but I redid all the images from four 2011 groups, [Butterflies], [South Dakota-January], [South Dakota-April], and [Trailcam Check]. Without getting too bogged down in the details, the last two images shown here are the "before" and "after" of the medium-sized version of a bighorn lamb image. (Only the "after" is linked.) Even in the medium-sized image, there is more detail apparent in the body of the lamb. Either Photoshop Elements has gotten better, or I have, or both. I could spend all winter redoing images from before 2017, which is roughly the start of my modern era of photo processing.

2011 Photo of the Year

Before

After