Credits
This site was developed by Martin Sarabura. Some photos on this website are available for redistribution under the Attribution No Derivatives license. Others are external references whose availability is determined by following the link. If no specific credits are provided, then the content or image is protected by full copyright.
Each page is dynamically generated using the PHP scripting language hosted on an Apache server. The images were manipulated using GIMP II.
The logo was developed by taking an image off the internet and cropping the uninteresting parts away.
Then, the image was rendered in gray-scale.
A threshold filter was applied to the image so the main image remaining was the heron.
Finally, the image was printed out, I traced the image by hand onto another sheet, and scanned the sheet to get the final image. Afterwards I added the little lines below the bird.
With the basic image in good shape, I was able to modify it to fit onto the web page header as below. The trick here was to use the "smudge" tool in Photoshop.