Here's a feather that I photographed on a beach. The feather design was very cool, but lots of clutter within the feather. So, this one took a lot of work in post processing to create something artistic with it. I used my Photoshop Elements, Nik Software's Vivesa and Topaz Glow to fix this image.
Here is the finished image.
Here is the original image out of the camera. Not very pretty.