I've made up my mind that I need to work on a certain number of images each day just to keep somewhat up. While working on images it is important for me to keep learning how to do things. I'm never sure what some little thing I try might turn out to be something I can utilize in much more of my work. Years ago I tried to learn how to incorporate text into photographic illustrations so I could do something a little different for the creation of the Athletes of the year features we put in the paper. It was simple, I just wanted to put in some of their stats and accomplishments. I bumbled and stumbled through it and it took me far longer than it should have, but I did it and learned alot in the process. Now I make posters and all sorts of things based on that little tiny experiment. So when I stumble on something now--i don't disregard it---I try to learn from it. This image I was trying a different way than I usually do to make the image black and white and I found by pushing the process a little I could create something I didn't expect. Then I wanted to see if I could make the image work.It reminded me of several printmaking techniques and I thought about that and began trying to tone and push the tones until I finally arrived at this. Not sure what I think of it yet, but it was important for me to learn what this little part of photoshop can do--maybe I'll be able to use it more and more in my work. SayerMotter Photography image manipulated by Richard Sayer.