Kaleidoscopes
I have a particular love for kaleidoscopes, or any kind of circle art. At one time I actually made physical scopes with mirrors. I wanted to make kaleidoscope images in Photoshop, but I couldn't get the angles to work, until a friend sent me some scans of quilting templates with the perfect angles. Photoshop now has a kaleidoscope filter, but it's not as creative as hand picking your own starting wedge from a souce photo and copy/pasting it together. I work from a variety of source images -- mostly photos of flowers or leaves, sometimes campfire flames and occasionally I work with fractals.
Arbutus Lines
from peeling arbutus bark
Fungalli
from a patterned shelf fungus
Flame Leaf
from autumn Japanese maple leaves
Starflake
from leaf skeleton against snow
Siskin Flower
from Pine Siskin photo
Ceilidh
from garden flowers
Lisbet
from Iris
Katarina
from Iris
Baresquant
from ice formations on a puddle
Crystalle
from ice formations on a puddle
Caddalaine
from mixed flowers
Shannarra
from yellow begonia
Dawnrose
from rhododendron
Dragonfly Flower
from photo of dragonfly
Elegantia
from rhododendron
Brianna
from stems and wild pea flowers
Gloria
from campfire flames
Kirianna
from campfire flames
Leotus
from Iris
Mokreet
from stems and weedy flowers
Fish Conference
from photo of marine worms
Orpheus
from rhododendrons
Papillon Jaune
from autumn alder leaves
Pellucidar
from photo of butterfly
Flower Star
from dahlia
Valentine
from rhododendron
Merriquist
from Ultra Fractal image
Daystar
from day lily
Jaystar
from Steller's Jay
Middle Earth
from Ultra Fractal image
Papillon Bleu
from blue mallow flower
Victoria
from cow vetch
Unity in Diversity
from campfire flames
Shiny
from Ultra Fractal image