Latest work: "1959 Japanese Postcard Mail"

As usual, this didn't go exactly as planned. What I began doing at 5 a.m. was simply tweaking a photo I'd taken in Hawaii of a giant bird of paradise plant. And it turned into this. (Click to enlarge.)

That's what I love about what I do. I never know what to expect, what's going to happen. What appears is often a complete surprise. I see a form, a color, a pattern, a texture, and it makes me think of something else, some other photo I have in my collection, and so I begin asking "what if?" What if I add this, try that, erase this, delete that? Hours pass without my realizing it.

I've uploaded this latest image to my website at Fine Art America, where it's currently available. Thanks for looking! ©Carol Leigh