

Manipulated
Most of the images in my portfolio are made with some form of manipulation. Sometimes it is a small change, like changing some small detail or adding a more dramatic sky. Other times the manipulation is far more extreme, like adding an extra head to my body (Past vs Future) or playing a massive game of cards in the sky (The Game: Solitaire). The reason for the manipulation is sometimes to create a more surreal scene. Other times it is to fix something from the capturing stage


Pawn
I had something very different in mind when I planned this image. I even photographed various additional stock images I thought I would need for what I had originally planned in my head. But when I started to edit this image in Photoshop, it took me on a very different journey that ended with creating it as part of a set with an image from my portfolio that I completed recently called "Lover". "Lover" was created and intended as a standalone image. Yet creating these images a