What do you get when you fool with Mother Nature? A pattern that would look great as a silk scarf!

I started with a shot of blooming Sage.

The sky was heavily overcast so of course I couldn’t resist swinging my camera around 🙂

I began rotating it in Photoshop to find the best view which gave me the idea of blending two versions.
So I created a copy layer; flipped it horizontally, lowered the opacity and used the blend mode “darken”.
As a last step, I tweaked color and contrast using Levels and Curves.