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Image by tracytoler

Reader and photo pool regular poster Tracy Toler put up a pretty cool photo last week.

This close crop shows how he took a Vivitar 283 flash, stuck it in a softbox, and then put a hand cut gobo over it shaped like a tree. The result is a catch light in the eyes of your subject that looks like…well…a tree.

Tracy’s creativity impresses me. Not just the photo. Heck, I don’t think I even have the artistic ability to make a cutout of a tree in paper. It would probably look like something out of a Tim Burton movie.

I also noticed another little tidbit of information in Tracy’s profile that I like. Tracy is a beer man, and I like anyone who likes beer. Right on Tracy.

Got any cool effects like this of your own? Drop a comment and tell us all about it. And of course don’t forget to add your own photos to the reader photo pool on Flickr. You might end up on the front page too. Woohoo!

I’m still on vacation in Colorado, but I’m going home today, so things will be back to normal. Did you even notice I was gone?