Mario, I love the image you gave us. From your gallery, I can see how well you do broad sweeping shots with lots of detail inside the shots. These pumps look like the trunks of some primal beasts. Thanks for such a fine image to work with!

Bipolartwo---what wonderful fantasies. I find photomanipulation very difficult. (Had to do it years ago & hated it!) You do it with total ease & fun. Your little family break-up is made of great little beasts, and your "Ark" piece has some wonderful cartoon creatures...love the sheep! Nice transformation of a serious photo. 

Tara, given your experience with quilting & clothes-making, your first variation doesn't surprise me as it looks like a huge serving plate, or like the ceiling of a grand opera hall (like one of Lucinda's variations in the last DITI). Wonderful play on Mario's linear theme. And the night scene is very fine & your hues work for me totally. That is, it really looks like a night scene. You always seem to do at least one realistic image in these threads. Fine job.

And Feliciti, you've turned the big pipes into the limbs of some gigantic primordial lobster, lol: wonderful color "trim" (almost neon), and you smoothed-out the sky & water, and brought-out the grasses. Another fine transformation.

Mine is below. I was going for an "etching," but this came out instead. (Maybe an 'old photo'?) I'll see if I can do more later...

A real pleasure. Be well, all. Mark

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ps---bipolartwo, just saw your last variation: Very moody and with real clarity. Fine work with the light & flares (or whatever they are). Like Tara's night scene, only with lights. Very nice.