Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity

Playing with the filters. Here is a picture which to my eye looks like Henri Matis was playing with it. When you click to enlarge it, the beard hairs really look good.

This one enhances edges. It gives a real three dimentional effect. The green background looks almost textured.

And this was the original. Brenda took it of me to memorialize the dirty face of a working man. Well, I didn't really HAVE a portrait of me for this year.

I thought it would be kind of fun to try out different "artistic" effects.