When I travel, I operate under the 'what if' principle -- meaning that I say to myself what if there was a perfect background exactly where I wanted it, or what if there were a model on a balcony or in front of a great landscape, or what if the sky were dramatic, and so on. In this way, I preconceive what I'd like to see happen, and then in Photoshop I make it so. In this case, I photographed a lovely young lady who worked on the boat I was on in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam, and then I added a classic scene from the bay of the limestone Karst formations. The railing on the boat in front of which she was posing wasn't to my liking (it was white wrought iron), so I borrowed a stone railing from one of my pictures taken in India, turned it into a silhouette, and then used it as a component for this composite. This is the scene I saw in my mind.
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