Making The Most Of Your Rejects

Josh Osborne looks at a creative use for your files that end up in the reject bin.

How many times have you looked through your library of images and said "I like that foreground but the rest just isn't working for me" or "that's a nice sky, I wish I had something to go with it"? Heaps right? A while back I was scanning for Glenn (glennmckimmin.com) and he was asking me to pick out images that I liked. Immediately I started sorting them into a "these are great" pile and the "these are missing something" ones. The problem was that I really liked elements in the reject pile and didn't want to see them go to waste. So with a little imagination and some time this is what I did. The funny thing is that this image hangs proudly as a 50inch print in my house and while many people comment on the beauty of this photo, someone interestingly enough has even claimed they have been there? I never had the heart to burst their bubble tell them that the location existed only in my imagination but it still made for a funny moment.

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