Something about the way this turned out made me think of the planet Saturn. I pass it every day on my way to work. (Okay - maybe that's a bit of a stretch. But people DO often voice the opinion that I may be from another planet!) These shallow pottery bowls live in my niece's home. The original background of this shot was a bit distracting from the main subject, so I changed it. The new background is a modified version of the original photograph. Now that we have the photo manipulation genre to play in, I STILL waffle! I used to dither between Photography and 2-D, and now I dither between genres. What was most important to me about this shot was it's abstract quality though, not the fact that I switched out the background. So . . . abstract won out. ................ SHAMELESS ADVERTISEMENT FOR PRIOR WORK . . . . If you like TWILIGHT ZONE -style stories, take a look at "Headed for Mystery," a short story I wrote in collaboration with JillianElf and Unstrung65. You can access it from the Writer's Gallery, or my gallery, or you can cut and paste this address: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1503203&member (I don't know how to make one of those link things - sorry!)