Fairy Rings Explained ...

They say a fairy ring (also known as fairy circle, elf circle, elf ring or pixie ring) is a naturally occurring ring or arc of mushrooms, but I'm not having that ... I know it's actually a magical porthole that binds the world of man and the fairies together, through which the fairies can come and go as they please.

Mushrooms ... pah!

Seriously, this was a 'nearly ran' for this week's Sunday Challenge for which the theme was mirroring and we were all asked to use the same stock image. However, from there we could do what we wanted with it: we could mirror, process and texture it in whatever way we wanted.

The stock image we were provided with was The Bridge of the Fairies by Leina1 over on Deviant Art.

You will find a copy of this in the Notes if you don't want to follow the links through to Deviant Art.

For this one I mirrored the image horizontally and then created a vertically mirrored copy to create a circle of sorts and then went down the tried and tested orb route with a few enhancement along the way.