Gaia

Gaia started out as a completely different concept but when looking through my stock images I liked how the mountains, which I photographed out of a train window in Switzerland, followed the shape of the hair in my portrait image. I built up a scene using more photographs from Switzerland and composited in some animals to give interest to the scene. The image was created as a demonstration of how to retouch a portrait which you can read about at www.exposingillusions.com.