Yesterday we spent the day at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. I took a couple of photos with the intension of taking them into illustrator and playing around with the live trace features.
I started using illustrator back in CS3 when it was first released, and seen how this tool has grown and its capabilities is amazing. It does help to have a fas processor to speed up the process, specially if you want to sit there for a bit and customize the trace like i did in the graphics below. Very quick way to achieve some great looking compositions that could be used for prints.