The following three images demonstrate the “blending” process involved in creating these photo edits.

The top two images are scans of in-camera double exposures taken with a film camera. This means that we took a photo (window pane with rain-drops), and then, without winding the film forward, took another one – I think of a striated stone – on top of it. Same for the second photo: a log of wood and clouds.

Now, the third picture is an experimental, “blended” version. With more editing, it could become an interesting piece. You can see that what appear to be waves (and incidentally the “clouds”, too) are the striations of the stone that we photographed, and the flock of dark birds are really artefacts of the raindrops on that window pane. The coast-line or pier in the distance is gash in log of wood…

Notice how nicely the final image has retained the characteristic grain and 35-mm look of the in-camera double-exposures.

The two images on the right demonstrate another aspect of my editing process, namely what I call "Clone-Brush Painting".

The top picture shows the base image, a photo of a garden shovel with some flowers. You can see in the second picture, that the colors and textures of the flowers have been smeared out and merged with the rusty dirt of the shovel using the clone-brush tool of my image editing program with various settings and iterations.

At some point, the center part (figure?) began to resemble a woman wearing a kimono, and using a soft black brush, I dabbed in a "wig" of hair. My "Shovel Girl" was the initial concept for the image Girl in a Pond.