10 permutations; revelations of backlit symmetry

Ten permutations of a single image, 

using the PicFrameApp along with Snapseed...

continuing to play with cropping and symmetry...

(scroll to the bottom to find out what you're looking at, 
or to confirm your guess)

Below,

the "source material," 

from a few weeks ago:

Above, the result of editing 

the 'original,' below,

an unfurling tulip in a vase on our coffee table,

backlit at sunset:

Tulip. Sunset. Surreal.

submissions...from a far shore to the backyard

For what it's worth, here are my five submissions for

The Mobile Photo Awards.

From Sokcho, South Korea...

...to Seoul's Gyeongbok-gung Palace...

...to a cactus bloom in the backyard here in Tucson;

ephemeral color among the spikes--

each flower lasts for just a day:

Inca vs. Spaniard: "macro"-snapseeded chess set

Years ago, I got this while traveling in Latin America--

a Peruvian Inca vs. Spaniard chess-set:

Recently, I thought I'd play around with the almost-macro possibility of the iPhone camera, and this chess set seemed to lend itself to close-ups. For inexpensive folk-art, I like the detail of these little ceramic gamepieces.

While there are special clip-on macro-lenses available for the iPhone, (such as from olliclip.com), I don't have any such 'adaptor;' just using the iPhone itself, you can get remarkably close and still stay in focus:

above: using the tilt-shift filter and then the grunge filter...
below: using the tilt-shift and grunge filters again, but changing the texture
and texture-strength:

below--drama and tilt-shift filters:

...and finally,a heavy blur with the tilt-shift filter, to focus on the faces of the Inca Queen and  King; I don't know if the facial consternation was intended by whomever hand-painted these little pieces, but it seems historically appropriate: