Picture Perfect - "A Two Week Project"

Playing with Accidental photos.

The above was accidently taken, in my haste, while walking back home along a long beach in a sudden storm. If you tip your head
sideways you can see the curve of the beach - to help, the white are the waves breaking on the sand.

Although not exactly as required, for the theme, the above photo is one that I have used in a way to be creative as the task this week asks for (to use an existing photo in a creative way). I have an album filled with many mistakes, or photos taken accidently, that most people would throw away. More often I tend to keep them and try and find some future use for them in such things as backgrounds for web pages or greeting cards or some inspired photoshop creation like the ones I have here below. This is from one of the first times I used photoshop and fireworks when I created images of what the above photo created in my mind when I worked on it. There were a number of thoughts that came - mainly related to out in the universe images.

So this is what I have to share - my ideas on how to use this photo creatively. I will now hopefully find some other 'mistake' photo to be creative with and come back for week 2 and post the result in the way asked for in the theme - thats if my creativity will flow from my will rather than inspiration.

 I flipped it to the right and these two thoughts are what came to mind - the solitude and stillness of space. I combined photos of a hurricane taken from space with some photos I also found online of a nebular and from memory a moon from some other planet far away in our universe.

When I tipped it sideways again I still had an image of space -a view into the mysteries of the universe from the side of a passing planet. It felt drifting and then thoughts of old sailing ships came to mind and they silently passed through the mists of time - I chopped a sailing ship from a photo and added it in different sizes to give the feel for depth as they drifted past in line. This is not such good editing but you get the feel anyway and I might one day re-do this idea and perfect it a bit more!

This final one I tipped upside down and thoughts came of a sunrise. I then chose another photo from my latest photos at that time, lay it under the image and slowly revealed it to a state I thought suited the feel I was getting. This is a sort of greeting card image again with that feel of solitude.

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For the rules of the Group Theme

http://fotofriday.multiply.com/

To enter this Weeks theme
http://fotofriday.multiply.com/journal/item/528/Picture_Perfect_Creative_Ideas_a_two_week_project



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