Tuan Nguyen Sculpture in San Diego...

 You can see more of Tuan Nguyen's art  and his biography here...

Linking to The Creative Exchange today...

Try as I might I have not been able to google and find the name of this artful statue, or the artist, near the Embarcadero in San Diego where I snapped the shot with my camera last week.  I did not write it down at the time.  But it has been fun to play with the effects on picnik.com until I reached the point in experimenting of having the "look" I was trying to achieve.  I used multiple fades and exposure adjustments but no texture so to speak yet...the original is below this one...