Meridian Logo Alternates

When I was developing the brand image for Meridian, I wanted to come up with a logo that works against any background image – the only requirement being that the background image looks cool. :)

So I scoured the web for free stock images of different textures and photoshopped them together with different blends, gradients, colors, etc. These are some of the images I came up with before I decided on my favorite one. Which is the one in the previous shot, which this shot is a rebound of...I did this in the wrong order, didn't I?