On the eve of the BIG storm this week, I said to Dilshara that I had been so busy working on portraits, a 365 project and other aspects of photography that I had abandoned my work with textures - which is what I love nearly most of all. Then we lost our power and all I had of an 'electrical nature' was about 30 minutes laptop battery time and a hundred or so image and texture files on my internal hard drive. I found this old photo and messed about with a couple of textures and got (what I think is) a great result. Sometimes you can mess with photos and textures for hours and get nothing worth keeping. So I consider this happy result as a sign to get back to it!
The storm provided a fortuitous turn of events for me in that sense, forcing me back to practising what I love and do best.

The textures applied to the photo in Photoshop are by a guy called Jerry Jones who goes by the name of "Skeletal Mess" on Flickr. His textures are marvellous and he has hundreds of them - all freely available to use by other photographers. A talented and generous guy!
More of my textured photos are found by following the link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wildephotos/sets/72157621831685669/