Playing with photos

I have a photo programme called Gimp where I can manipulate, photos. It is an excellent programme, but up to now I have only cropped, condensed and saved. then I saw some wonderful photos from the Geelong Visual Diary Blog. That inspired me to be brave and investigate what else I could do with this programme and here are my results.

I used the photos of the spring Blossoms in a previous blog, plus the photo of the yellow orchid for the swirl. Will post the other original photos when I find them again.