Janet Brien's photos with the keyword: layers

I'm going to tell you right now, this is a photoshopped image! :D The mushroom you see was laying in a bunch of grass and weeds, and I was only just able to get a picture without leaves obscurring the mushroom. I thought it was so beautiful though, I tried to think how I could share it. Then I remembered that I'd taken some pictures of a very cool stump that was bristling with frost, and to my great happiness, I happened to take one picture at an angle that would work for the mushroom! So, I carefully cut the mushroom out of its grassy image and then darkened tha background in the stump image, cut out a layer to go "in front" of the mushroom stem, so that I could nestle it into one of the gaps in the stump, and placed the mushroom in place! :D To me, this is a nice way to be able to share two images I wouldn't have bothered with if I didn't put them together! And what's extra cool is that I didn't even think about this possibility when I took pictures of either of them. It just worked out. :)

1 more picture in a note above! When looking at this tree straight on, you can really appreciate the lovely textures and patterns of the bark, but if you look at the edges of the bark sections, you can see the many layers that make up this tree's bark. I was surprised how much it looks like shale, (click to see a picture) which is a type of fine-grained sedimentary rock. The inset picture is another angle to show the layers.