Hugh Johnson thinks no two gardens are the same, perhaps that goes for photomontages too.

The first in my series of alternative processes is my photomontage. I'm not much of a gardener so in the spirit of good weather, I made my own garden, darkroom style. I wanted to follow on the quote by Hugh Johnson, that no two gardens are the same. Using a rake (adjusting my enlarger), and some gardening gloves (adjusting the timer accordingly through experimentation) I discovered that all this junk I had gathered for my photo could be shuffled together to look like a fancy area for vegetation. On the right of both pictures, using a photo reel and clothes pins I made a windmill that is in motion and blowing the flowers petals out of one flower. With just my luck, it appears as if the direction of the wind doesn't really match with the direction that the flowers are blowing BUT this actually gives off the idea that the windmill is further behind from the flowers therefore blowing them in the proper direction. To make more sense of what I just said, basically it makes the windmill look like it's behind the flowers instead of beside. On the right there's like motion blur under the photo reel convincing you that it really is windy. Then we've got my snake ring and that little guy is really just playing himself in this. What's even better is that one of the flower petals looks like a bird on the montage to the left. He's waldo. Where is he?!?