Breakout

@Marion: Looking forward to the creativeness...

@marc battault: Thanks, Marc!

@Bookfool: Glad you like it... I used about three freeware programs (I generally use Photoshop as a last resort -- why put up a Christmas tree when you just want a flower in a vase? That is, "Get those menus out of my face!") -- The final effect was with a filter provided by photoscape (http://www.photoscape.org/ps/main/index.php) that allowed application outside a region of the photo - thus I used it to keep one flower in focus while applying the pastel effect to the rest of the photo. Oh, I started with a photo of lanceleaf coreopsis that filled the frame.