Happy Easter

I made this image from two photographs.  The wing is from the avian collection in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, and I photographed it once and then mirrored it.  The background is a picture of the sun's reflection on the ocean as seen from Haleakala Crater on Maui in Hawaii (I shot this in the summer of '69 -- my first year of photography).  For the ethereal body of the angel, I proscribed a long oval selection using the elliptical marque tool and then feathered the edge 40 pixels with Select > modify > feather.  I then used the pulldown menu command Edit > fill and filled the selection with white.