Tree Bark Pattern

[46thGA]

Hi - I'm not really new to the forum. I've been lurking and learning in the shadows for some time, and even posted a time or two under my original user name.

This weekend, I had to cut down a severely damaged river birch tree (one of the many jobs I had put off while I fed my PSE addiction). As I worked, my mind was still on PSE of course, and I noticed the patterns of the bark as it peeled away from the trunk in paper thin strips. I wasn't sure if it would work, but I took some of the larger pieces in to my scanner and scanned them. I used the resulting file as the background of an image I had created.


http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1Z8HYYXAPHNID9i1xTayTlJr4on20

[willpresley]

I like it a lot -- very good work and neat idea!

Welcome to the forum, keep in touch now that you've quit lurking.

[kayser]

What a beautiful background! And it's great with the chapel montage! Glad you came out of the shadows; hope we'll see more of you.

[kevq]

Hi,
just had a peek at your gallery. Great work!
Now you come on in, looking forward to seeing more of your creations.
Kev.

[Daviskw]

Hi there and Welcome to the forum

Lots of work in that piece of yours, very interesting and well put together.

Now a good man, or woman, would post a scan of the bark so we could save to a pattern :D

Butch

[virgo1]

Hi,
That is really wonderful. The pattern in the bark is beautiful. This summer I'll try to capture paper birch patterns to share with you.:)
Eva;)

[46thGA]

Thanks for the feedback. I liked the results too. It's hard to improve on nature's work.

I'd be happy to share my bark scans. I think I did three. How should I do that? Post them at Pixentral? Private messages?

[Wendy]

Hi ...

Oh that works so well ... the bark really does make a great background for the Chapel. Good work too on splitting the Chapel image into all the small ones its very effective and looks good with this photograph :)

Wendy

[vawitt]

Beautiful - and a much nicer background for your Chapel project!

~Val in snowy IL

[Carbone]

Great idea ! I like it a lot :)

Ray

[Jan Ruthig]

What a creative idea! Your whole gallery is beautiful.:)

[crljean]

Looks great! Cool idea!

[CarolLHB]

Very nice!:)