I was inspired by a picture I saw on line of an x-ray of a guy taking a picture, the idea being that I’d put my face on the left half and keep the x-ray skull, hands and camera on the right. So I wrote the photographer explaining what I wanted to do and asked him how much he wanted to use his image. Which I thought was pretty cool.
I got a curt reply saying that he didn’t feel my application was an appropriate use of his work.
OK, whatever.

So being me, I did a SP in the mirror… then searched on-line image banks for bits of x-ray anatomy, and put them all together to make this picture. It wasn’t easy cause especially the hands were not in the position I wanted so had to manipulate the fingers and other various bones and stuff to superimpose on the original SP. I was surprised I actually found an x-ray camera which came up pretty good after enhancing some of the technical bits, and I did some other adjustments to take into account what I was wearing…

SP taken with EOS 5D MkIII + EF 24-105L IS.

I dedicate this image to my long time friend and soul brother Paul Mendrik, best man at my wedding in ‘76… who I’d been out of touch with for 20 years. Through fortunate circumstance we recently rediscovered our karma and he agreed to design my website for the cost of a renewed friendship.

I so love it when priceless gratuities inspire creativity :-)