Three postcards for a Swap-bot group swap. Ready to hit the mailbox today.

All the same. I had wanted to do three different ones but life got in the way and I was in danger of running past the send date.

Completed the digital collage postcards this morning and have five ready to mail out once my swap partners are assigned. I had much fun with this, although I have to be honest and say that it was a very quick and dirty collage and I might have done better.

My inspiration came from the PS3 Earth assignment and my own feelings about my island, expressed through elements of some of my favourite photographs.

The image was constructed in Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro, the slogan comes via the Sanday Tourism Association. The postcard itself, including the words on the back, was done in MS Publisher.

I included images for the Air Mail sticker and the new Orkney Community Flag and the wording, stipulated in the swap, explains why I chose this image.

I used five or six of my own photographs for this collage, and concentrated on browns, greens, sand/sea/sky, and kelp – and the wee selkie. The rationale is all to do with the kelp, which is the reason for the sandy nature of the island and also for the existence of the important seal populations here, and was once a source of income for the islanders.

I like the collage sufficiently well to work on it further and the pure image will, I hope, appear here later – once I have refined it to a level at which I might want to print it out and display it on my wall.