Tattooed Scanograms are surreal, layered pictures that begin with cameraless images. Dreamily evocative these images are created by merging textural photographs with transparency scans of leaves, flowers, feathers, and other natural objects. In 2010 I began experimenting with creating these images digitally after some less than pleasing results from direct cyanotype prints using home-treated photosensitive paper. These experiments followed on the heels of lectures and discussions with Pittsburgh photographer Sue Abramson about her nature series that began with direct prints of elephant ears and other products of her garden on photosensitive paper. She was just beginning to take her project to another level with large flatbed scans at that time. My project was also indirectly inspired by Man Ray’s Rayographs and Max Ernst’s Histoire Naturelle frottage sketches. My brightly colored, unusually shaped images are original adaptations evocative of dreams, musings, or fleeting imaginings.