Another attempt at a decent calling card

Ok, I've taken some of what I learned from my earlier calling card attempt and tried getting a little creative.  I used one of my photos from a shoot here on the Marbella seafront to add a nice little textured background and played around with the colors a bit.  I'm not sure if the text is quite what I'm after, but I'm just messing about really.  I don't think these cards will ever get to meet the printer so I'm not gonna lose any sleep over it.

One style I did implement from my previous card is the way the lines follow each other from front to back.  I like that effect for a card because I think it gives it a bit of flow.  Makes it a bit more interesting.

See the retouched original here

Squatters

I love this photo.  This Catamaran has been parked off the front of Marbella for the past few days and I keep having to take pics of it.  I know, it's a sickness.

Canon PowerShot S50, ƒ/8, 1/80, ISO 50, focal length 15mm.  Some levels, exposure, highlights and colors in Aperture, then in Photoshop I used a white to transparent gradient color dodge from the ground up on the rocks and a reversed gradient from the sky downward applying a color burn.  These last two steps really brought out the highlights.  I exported from aperture using BorderFX.