Making "Absolut Love"

It was getting very close to New Year's and I hadn't figured out how I was going to solve this problem. I finally decided to just go ahead anyway and hope it would end up looking ok. I obviously didn't want to use the picture of Benjamin and Jeremy in front of the couch as the real source image, and one day we were driving around and saw this beautiful patch of trees that had changed color. We shot a number of pictures that day in the hopes that one would be a good base image for our card.

Many of these pictures are wonderful, so I produced a few variants. Look at the next pages to see them