In "Abstraction" "Appetizing" and "Quilted Glass" the technique I used was grabbing a portion of the image with MS Paint's selection tool and moving them around the photo, and cropping out some of the space. I loved, loved the result and photo splicing is now a big passion of mine.

^Like a Painting. This was the blurred out background on the close up of a flower.

^Pink Rose, enough said.

^Love Wilts, I have mixed feelings on my cheesy text edit.

^Bird Brain, this was originally taken from such a distance the image of the bird was made unimportant by a sea of blue sky behind it. With cropping the bird is a little out of focus, but he/she is now the central theme of the photo

^Appetizing. One of my favorites. Absolutely love how this came out

^Lonely Man

^Abstraction, original photo taken out of my Civic when my little brother was driving us home from a friend's house.

^Quilted Glass, my favorite of this collection I think. The original photo is of a sculpture done by the very talented Dale Chihuly that was exhibited at the Saint Louis Botanical Gardens a few years back.