Selim's Blog

These two images are kind of similar, but there's different points to them. My fortune was "You will travel far and wide, both pleasure and business". I took a more concrete reading of these with these images. It may look like any normal coastline but there's a twist to this. That is the Ohio River just off the 2nd Street Bridge. The city? Chicago : D

I was going for a play on the horizon line, along the first dimensional line with some foreground and background. The focal point is the main building in the first shot. To avoid overcrowding I limited myself to five blended layers in each. When I redid the original picture, I played on the blues changing the sky, the water, and just giving it a heavier feel. I added a lochness monster because every lake need a lochness and i can't help but think that a fun thing to do is go to these places where supposed "beast" dwell and just gaze longly at their "existant" forms.

I call him "Roy". He's a happy lake monster. Favorite meals: little fishes, shoes, and lost children. He likes long walks on the beaches too, if you're interested in being dinner.

Personally, I like the bottom image the most it looks the most real like I was standing somewhere and took a shot, but that’s just my own opinion.