Using a bad digital photograph to make something creative and artistic is an idea that I have plenty of raw material available to work with.

Everyone takes a bad picture from time to time; in fact, some of us take more bad ones than good ones.

Now I'm not referring pictures that didn't quite capture exactly what you wanted; I'm talking about the real muffs, out of focus, badly over or under exposed, just plain bad. But before you give them the heave-ho try to think creatively, outside the box that is, and you just might be able to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

The picture above is a disaster; but check out this article and see what the photographer did to salvage a bad digital photograph using Photoshop.

I think it's pretty interesting and perhaps printing it on some rough artist's watercolor paper would render it nicely. The only other thing I would have done would be to straighten the picture out so it's level.

Then again perfection isn't the goal here.

Take a camera with you whenever possible, and look around, you'll find a picture somewhere.

Source: digital-photography-school.com