My Great Aunt Esther took a photo of a neighbor whose family was homesteading in Newcastle, Wyoming. She wrote his name and the date on the back--Maurice Crooks, August, 1921.
I made a copy of that photo and used gel medium to transfer the image onto a manila tag.
Then I used gesso to white-out some areas, blending the edges of the photo into the background.
Then I went about stamping and tinting and embellishing and came up with what you see here.
I know it's best not to put the focal point of a composition directly in the middle, but in this case, I threw caution to the wind since Maurice seemed to stand so proudly right in the middle of his family's meager garden.
I'm linking to Simon, the Monday challenge is "Down on the Farm."
