Hi! It's just great to come here & see what all of you are doing. It's great to see how you change a photo into something so imaginative. Lucinda, your image is mysterious, moody & solitary, and it's a great place to start.

And everything else...

Straight enhancements (Tom, Tara, Bill, all very sensitive to the original)

Moody b&w's (tara & bill, very subtly done)

Highly graphic works (randy, graphic elements so well used, incl silhouette & layered sky)

Highly imaginative (Mario, 2 of your pieces are scenes from beautiful fairy tales, the 3d from a dark fairy tale; a beautiful, childlike fairy tale scene by gonzo; a surreal & beautiful fractal montage by Maria; the eerie twilight-scape by tara, w/those textured trees I love; a moody vision by Mark, wonderful misted background; a beautifully lit & dreamy vision by feliciti where the light seems to come from within; and a positively 'Andrew Wyeth' vision from Bill, with graphic detail too boot!)

to Tom's seamless inside-peek into a run-marathon (terrific manipulation) not to mention Lucinda's Grand Opera Ceiling (lol), like the dome of a great Baroque hall (more fine manipulation)

...a real cornucopia!

Below are my 3. I almost didn't do anything as they're hard to top.

Have a fine weekend everyone! Mark