*photo by Elaine A. Russell

This print was made by first printing a photo of a ruby red ranuculus flower.

I had printed this off... but it came out a bit bad... because the colors didn't quite print right, and the settings were wrong on the printer.

And so I took this opportunity to alter it. I sanded the print and etched on it...

and then printed a 2nd photo on top of the first.

The 2nd photo is of a mural in downtown Tuscon that I loved when we visited there a month or so ago.

The combined effect... is pretty darn cool IMO...

Sometimes life is like this too... it takes some etching and sanding away to make it all better :)