Although this image started out as two separate photographs, it’s no longer a photograph in the traditional sense. This “landscape” existed only in my mind’s eye. The foreground is a mirror montage constructed from a photograph of some waves in a rock formation taken during a trip to Moab, UT last spring. (To see more mirror montages, visit the Canyon Spirits post and gallery.) When I first saw the montage, I pictured a landscape and even imagined walking (carefully!) into it. While it looks forbidding and dangerous, there is also something about it that draws me in. I knew that I wanted to add a sky above it but it took several months to find one that worked for me. The sky in the image above is also a mirror montage constructed from a photograph of a cloud. After trying several possibilities – both straight cloud photographs and mirror montages – this was the one I liked best. Converting the overall image to black and white further abstracts it away from any earth-bound interpretation and enhances its spiritual quality.
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