This photo composite combines photography and painting created with gouache and acrylic as the background.

The elements have been digitally combined, blended and layered to portray an impressionistic, textured and painterly presence in the work.

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The photo was taken at Kalgan Pool in the Pilbara, WA. This jewel of a rocky gorge is situated in the eastern end of the Ophthalmia Range on the dusty outskirts of Newman.

We camped in the rocky gully and woke early in the morning just as the sun was rising & gently lit up part of the red cliff face above us. The moon was still hanging in the sky and was positioned in perfect alignment between the red cliff, sky & a young Eucalyptus.