The Great Turtle and The World Tree

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Black Dragon

'Cause alligators look like dragons... Updated with dodge\burn and SBS Add'l link per Alligator pic owner's request: https://www.facebook.com/FotostyleSchindler

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Darth Vader

Storm Trooper courtesy of Marcus Ranum (www.ranum.com). Actual image from DA.

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Corpse Wagon

I think George Barris himself would be proud of this one! Image for the hearse is used by permission (see below). In accordance with their wishes, I have provided a link to their main account here. Link shown in sources is the actual image used. Permission: ---------- crestmultimeadia said the...

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Blossoms

Source only - see SBS

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The Day They Attacked!

An homage to SciFi movies from the 50's & 60's

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Widowmaker

My first chop in 5 years or so on this site. Many thanks to vincentfavre, Book-of-Light-Stock, and MiraNox for the source photos

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The Last Summoning

EDIT: Changed the sky...again (no source - render clouds, motion blur, color overlay, blending) and the lightning. Sorry for all the changes, but I had a hard time finding a clouds pic that I both liked and could use...so I made my own. Hope you like. Will try to update SBS when I get a chance&g...

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The Seal Queen

Thanks to mjranum-stock of DA for the source photo. Also to Luca Galuzzi of www.galuzzi.it. His iceberg photo was found on wikimedia commons at the link shown in my sources. Also redheadstock of DA for the sparkles brushes

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Bomb Disposal

No external sources...

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Higher Learnin'

Ok, so I felt silly...

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Sunset Flowers

Thanks to pheliz-stock of DA for the sunset photo. Created a displacement map for the water effect, see my SBS for details...

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Eleanor Rigby

I know this is a simple chop, but the source photo was so powerful, I couldn't let it go. For once I thought I would just leave it simple and focus on the imagery. The photo of the woman was taken by Chalmers Butterfield. The gravestone is Eleanor Rigby's gravestone, albeit with some minor alteratio...

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Joe & Mickey

According to wikipedia, the first 4 way, 3 color traffic light was invented by a policeman in Detroit in 1920. I thought this was surprisingly early, so I took some inspiration from it. Meet Joe & Mickey...proud new owners of Genco Imports and Bull's Gym respectively. Shrewdly located next t...

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Chocolate Covered Shroomberry

Yum.... Thanks to Lilystox of DA for the leaves

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Poached Egg

No additional sources...

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Exotica

Fun with displacement maps... EDIT: Changed her eye color to make it even more striking Thanks to ~liquid-venus-stock of DA for the source photo. She has been linked,

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