Mosaic Effect

I often play around with the Mosiac Effect in GIMP but I've never had it work out well. Probably because I'm using it on the wrong kinds of pictures. Anyway, I was editing a photograph today, and with only a minor amount of adjusting, I noticed a portion of the picture looked something like this first image. Thinking it was too good to pass up, I swirled my pic using the Liquify distortion. Then I kept playing around and added a Mosaic-ed layer. :)


Details: The Liquify and Mosaic Effects can be found in GIMP under "Filters" and then "Distortions."