Photoshop - Something which has been bouncing around inside my head, and this is the first of many experiments, whilst it try and get back into the idea of image manipulation on a large scale. The question at the moment is whether to embrace emerging technology (CGI) or go with using image banks and paying. Each has its ups and downs i suppose...

Anyhow, don't look too close at the trees! This took about 90 minutes, with serious room for improvement, although its a good start. The original image was shot on 5x4 (thus the tiny depth of field) and the explosion image was grabbed from the internet. Its a total fluke that the lighting in both images matches up slightly, but as i said, Cutting around leaves gets a tad boring!

Any thoughts, send them on a postcard. Oh, and the project is about new theories of the sublime, in response to Gene Ray's "Notes on the Politics of Fear".

(image file size is quite large - if on dial up, get a better internet connection you klutz)