Pictures I Take I Like To Change Into Something That Looks Like Art

I like taking pictures and changing them into something that resembles art.  It makes the photo look more interesting.  It gives it texture, substance and a story, in my opinion anyways.  For example:  I've attached three pictures that I took of myself with my iPad in the same night, the originals and changed them to the final the transformation below each original.

I think the finished product looks so much more interesting than the originals.  The originals just looks like a person taking pictures of herself in her room but the changed photos say something else, each one has a story all of it's own.