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Birth of a Christmas Card

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December 22, 2020 September 5, 2023

3 plants from Unsplash: tree limb, nick-nice-uATVhIKPr8M-unsplash; wiry plant, sanni-sahil-fBE3hd8dMxs-unsplash; big leaves, scott-webb-EI4xE2Mrdt0-unsplash.

Birth of a Christmas Card

Three images of plants that looked like they might say something to each other. What they said:

Art made from 3 Unsplash files (playing with Photoshop’s Stroke effect).

Two similar images suggest a pattern… which suggest a card.

To see the finished card as well as one I made earlier go here for my good wishes to you.

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