The story is about a very self-absorbed young man, and I remembered I had a pic of a narcissus stowed away in my Flickr account.
But while a narcissus may symbolize self-absorption, garage siding, the front bumper of a Vibe, and the neighbor's tree do not.
In Photoshop, I copied the leaves on the bottom left, and pasted them on other parts of the photo. Then I 'selected' only the narcissus flower itself and put it on top. A 'paint daubs' filter gave me the texture I was looking for, and thus I ended up with an illustration that pleased me greatly.
I do believe I also used Edit-->Transform-->Scale before I did the 'paint daubs' treatment.
And added a border by pasting the color pic onto a new field of black, merging the layers, and cropping off all but a medium frame of black.
This goes to show that we should take pics of everything in case you ever need a pic of anything.
Maybe someday I'll even have a use for my photo series "Things on the Back of Trucks."
