Fractals

I have been drawn to Fractals ever since I followed a free online tutorial (http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tutorials-effects/how-to-simulate-fractals-in-photoshop/) and produce my first one back in July.  Since then, I have created what I thought would be the impossible.  Fractals allow me to unleash my natural abilities to find aesthetic beauty in repetition, symmetry, and shape.  I enjoy how you can simply take one or two basic images and then juxtapose them, and flaunt that juxtaposition with repetition until it later gives way to beauty.  Like a flower in bloom, a piece of work goes through many stages until it is fully bloomed and even then, there are still alterations and evolutions it may take as it dies, decomposes and is part of another creation.  Below is my first educated, real attempt at Fractal beauty with 3 stages of transformation included.  The only two images I used to compose this fractal are a leaf and a peace sign.
Step 1

Step 2

Step 3