Natalie wrote:
these are wonderful! what's really weird, there is a tree a little further to the left - it's like you rotated the picture. cool! did you pull that off another picture?
Actually I used a program called Fluid Mask to mask out the unwanted background and then I Googled "grass" and found the background you see here and then layered the two together after adjusting the white balance of the child. There was no cloning involved, the only real close work was blending the hair off of the original background so nothing was lost.