About the Image(s)

This was an assignment in my Camera Club. I did not take the photo of the Sequoia, but everything else is mine.
I thought the photo was not pretty and I remembered an old picture of my Granddaughter, Ally, peeking through some fall color and I took that picture. I cropped her face and laid it on a single layer in Photoshop, trying to put it in the right place so that when I laid the Sequoia over her, and erased the hole in the middle of the tree, her face would appear. This took multiple attempts and I finally succeeded !
The background bothered me so I took a picture of colorful fall trees at Mammoth, CA., that I took a few years ago. I placed the layer of the tree with Ally in it, over the Colorful trees, and added a layer mask so I could erase it and the leaves would be there. Blue sky appeared in the upper right corner so I took the fall color image, flipped it horizontally, and laid the image over that. I erased again at the right corner, and the yellow leaves were revealed. Then I had to do a lot of fixing up the picture to make it look more realistic. I like the final result and sent it in, with five other images we had to doctor up. I'm looking forward to our Club Meeting on Tuesday to see what people did with the six images. This was frustrating, but I learned a lot and it was fun. Any comments appreciated; this was just a fun exercise.