thanks very much Carol, glad you like it. Had fun making it : )

thanks very much for the praise Mel, Janice and Karen, - your encouragement is very kind. Am quite pleased with the way it turned out.

I just replied to Jocelynne's query, Karen, on my Waterlily Altered photo, - so the same applies to this photo and your query, to save me repeating it.

but briefly, - Well, it's just my cropped photo of the Fan Flower, which I posted here earlier in the summer, photo taken 9 July. I just manipulated the image until I got the effects that pleased me. The arrangement of the stars took the longest of any of it : ) - but none of it took that long. I don't find it difficult to do, so am sure most people could achieve the same effects.

As I said on the Waterlily Altered pic, I have given the way I arrived at the Amethyst Moth photo, in the comments on that photo, when someone asked, so that's how I go about this. I just keep working on the images until something appeals to me. Have had no instruction/lessons on any of this, - have just kept working at it until I arrived at all these "creations" : )

Beautiful. Great. You are really coming into yourself with all these fancy effects. I really like it all.