paf: another abstract

Bonnie challenged us to create something abstract and bold this week - break with conformity and tradition....so I did (for me anyway).  Oh, and to use one of her new free textures.  I used Chinks of Light though I think the rays of light are lost a bit in my treatment.  Here are the photos I combined:

We had snowfall here in Seattle yesterday.  I turned it to black and white, copied the background and added the  posterize filter and changed it to Linear Burn @ 100%.

I added Bonnie's texture (isn't it pretty?) and used :

Used blending mode Hard Mix @ 75%.  That gave me a cave like image so I pulled in another photo of mine, this kind of otherworldly looking fern frond:

I put it at Hard Light, 100%.  I felt this cave is a place butterflies would congregate, so I had a photo of a monarch butterfly I took a couple years ago so I used 3 (three!) of them at Difference (thus the color changes in their placement) and I used a scrapbooking embellishment for the brown butterflies.

The result?  

Somehow the circular aura appeared and was enhanced by the posterize effect and then the texture brought out those cold colors and the rays of light at the top of the 'cave' opening. Your thoughts?

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