Stone Pharaoh Collage Revisited

Second Post of the Day
This morning, I created at least 30 new images from the Stone Pharaoh collage and the Sedar Fantasy. This afternoon, I took the Stone Pharaoh collage and removed the large paper leaves and their real stems. I found their stark color and form distracting against the more organic shapes and colors. Next I took away some of the plant-matter components that seemed misplaced.

I took this stripped-down version of the collage and started to play with it on IrfanView: recropped the image so that it seems we are viewing the two lefthand pharaohs between columns or the trunks of date palms. However, that may be less apparent now that I've made some color changes.

After removing the plant matter, the section below the two lefthand pharaohs is more noticeable. For me that's good because I like ambiguous images and that section looks like at least three things: water, stairs, and cracked stone. While playing on IrfanView, I accidentally figured out how to do something new (new to me) that gives me much more control over the image changes . . . and voila!