Now, this was really a challenge for me....
First, thanks to Marc, for telling how I could do it in Lightroom, as I only work with this Software.
I never did something like this before, so there was some reluctance, as I am quite a free spirit, however, it seemed a nice experiment to me, to first "collect2 the images randomly and then put them together in some way which creates something new.
I also had the need to create something which still meets my style in some way, so I did it in b/w.
During my vacation in France recently, I visited the "bambouseraie", a huge bamboo garden, which also has a japanes garden in that area. A breathtakingly beautiful place on this earth:
http://www.bambouseraie.com/
Some bamboo there is more than 10 meter high and can grow about 1m (3feet) a day (!).
I noticed, that a lot of people left their marks on the bamboo stems, cutting with knives into it. Of course, the stems were growing higher and thicker, making these graffiti marks really special, they became with time a characteristic part of the bamboo a bit like skars which we have on our skins.
The grid consists of close-up images from this bamboo graffiti:
http://www.annepretorius.com/p696896198/h74203d8a#h74203d8a
Thanks for this challenge, Martin, I learned a lot from this experiment, and I enjoyed it,
best, Anne Rose