A friend of mine took me to her local gardens for a couple of hours.  I often wonder, if the magic of flower photography will start to wear off, and I’ll get bored with taking close-ups of a single beautiful flower.  Then I go to the gardens and find an entirely new angle, like the patterns on the underside of a leaf.

Whenever I stopped my friend asked me more than a few times “what are you taking a picture of?” as I stoop over a leaf instead of a colorful flower bloom.  There is something about color and abstract shapes that get me every time.  These images were processed using Alien Skin’s Snap Art 4.  I used the Oil Paint presents to keep the look consistent among them.