The latest challenge presented here is to create greeting cards from photographs. I decided to do one with a winter theme but not specifically for a holiday.

I recently found some GREAT textures to play with here at Flypaper Textures. I treated myself to a holiday gift of these wonderful, colorful textures for just this type of creative project.

Here's the original image, a little sparrow I photographed in the snow right outside our living room window.



And, the greeting card it inspired...



Please find links to the creations done by other challenge participants here.

This was great fun! I may have to do some more...

OH...and...HAPPY HOLIDAYS to all!!

Blogger Community Photo Challenge

The use of Leading Lines in your photographs can have a very powerful effect.
• They can create depth and perspective to an image.
• They can convey distance and provide a relationship between the foreground and background of the image.
• They draw the eyes into a picture, leading them through a scene or directing them to an area in the image that the viewer would otherwise not have noticed.
[above taken from http://blog.fotonomy.com/tips/creative-composition-leading-lines/]

I had hoped to get out and try and take some new photos for this challenge. Unfortunately....that didn't happen. So, please enjoy these images featuring the use of leading lines from my archives.





Please visit the blogs listed here to find links to the other participants of this challenge.