Several years ago I took a photo of a famous Japanese Maple tree in the Portland Japanese Garden in Washington Park. I recently pulled it out and used it to create several of my photo mandalas. I find that I keep playing with it. Once I start down the creativity path there’s just no telling where it will take me. I love being able to explore like this.

click here to view the whole set – https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjzAwu1