Putting your pictures in my favorites is the highest honor I can give you. If I do not get to your pictures as soon as you post them, I apologize. I try. Also if I do not respond for awhile it doesn't mean I'm ignoring you, it just means I'm really tied up with life.
Tremendous manipulation and I too find it amazing that this isn't a real photo.
To add gravitas to your manip: an entrepreneur has constructed an island not dissimilar to the one in your image, off the coast of South Africa. It serves as a stopping-off point for birds migrating from Antarctica. He harvests the bird droppings and makes a fortune selling it to manufacturers of agricultural fertiliser!
There's gold in that graveyard you've produced, Greg.
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
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Very interesting. I just read yesterday that they're excavating what they believe to be Blackbeard's ship. Maybe they found it here? ;) Great image, Greg.
I think this is a great image. It really looks like a photograph. The clouds are especially realistic. My only slight problem is that the boats seem to be too small in proportion to the other picture elements. Perhaps I am just looking at it wrong.