After staying up half the night last night, I finally got this Photoshop exercise done.  The challenge was to replicate a collage done by our teacher. She gave us an example and her photos of a rustic barn, a wire fence and a bird with a misty fog and the colors of dawn. As always, I wanted to do my own thing :) so I looked and looked through my photo collection to find a suitable barn and fence and bird.  I tried several things, including a squirrel, and finally composed the collage as you see it.  (The rooster is free clip art I had downloaded from Dover Publications).  Here's a link to D J Pettitt's blog, where you will see the wonderful digital collages that she does.  http://djpettitt.blogspot.com/