Pixiq

When I come home from a major trip as I just did from Indonesia, after I select my favorite images, assign them a number and put them in the appropriate folder in my photo library, I then spend a lot of time looking for ways to enhance, embellish, and dramatize some of them.  Part of my thinking process is to combine photographs to create striking composites.  I’ve done this from the very beginning of my involvement in photography starting in 1969.  With film, I was a lot more limited, of course, in what was possible.  In the digital realm, the sky is the limit, and for a photo artist (this is how I see myself as opposed to a photojournalist) it’s a great time to be a photographer.

The two photos I combined to create this unique vision of Borobudur, the largest Buddhist monument in the world, was a sunrise shot of the 1000 year-old ruins plus a tattooed man with a python I photographed on Bali.  I used Topaz Adjust  to tweak the color and contrast of both images, and then I cut and pasted the subject in front of the background.