I find that every once in a while it is a good idea to seize an opportunity to step back from the business of photography and capture images or explore Photoshop techniques simply for the love and passion of photography. These images are the fruits of that endeavor.

These portrait and texture images were captured while in Ireland in July and were then layered together and blended in Photoshop CS 3. This digital technique is similar to the concept of double exposures in the era of film photography; with what can be argued to be a more dramatic output. Although that is, of course, entirely a matter of opinion.