so i'm just a little nervose about starting to paint.  so i've just organized my photographs into catagories... green and trees, distance and sky, buildings, people and buildings.  i hope to make some rules to remeber as i paint.  for example, contrast is what the eye goes to first, blue-er and blurry is farther away, the eye also goes to texture and people and symbols.  trees are darkest, sky is lightest, ground plane is light.  thats what i've got so far for today. :)