About the Image(s)

This composite photo, entitled “Roscoe Drives the Brick Road” consists of four separate photographs. Four were taken with an iPhone. I included whatever relevant settings I could find in the “File Info” of those photos.

I used a Sony RX 100 7 for the photograph of the car.

The goal of this creative image was simple - to create a credible composition using photos that I had already taken. I was drawn to the dreamy feel of the walkway. I did minimal, if any editing of the walkway pic. I realized that I would be able to use the walkway as a brick road for the photo of the car.

The car is a BMW three wheeler that I photographed at the National Automobile Museum in Turin, Italy (which is the car manufacturing center of Italy.) I selected a front view photo of the car because I wanted it to be driving towards the viewer. In Photoshop, I lightened the interior of the car using a mask for brightness / contrast. Other than the pasting and resizing the other component photos (my dog and the stone (cement?) statue of a lion,) I used Photoshop for cropping out the front steps of the walkway and fairly extensive generative fill alterations allowing for: Left side: the removal of the pumpkin and wood fence - and on the Right: removal of railing, large planter, stones, part of a cement block and vegetation which encroached on the “roadway.” I also used Generative fill to remove the steps at the rear end of the walkway. I also used Photoshop to create a drop shadow of the car.

Once I decided to use my pup, Roscoe, as the driver of the car - it was a no-brainer to use another photo taken on that same walk in Provincetown, the statue of a stone lion - (which are used as guardians of Buddhist temples in Tibet.) Roscoe is a Shih-tzu, which means “lion dog” in Chinese- and they were also used to guard the temples. It made perfect sense for Roscoe to be driving down the brick road of his temple with a statue of his likeness on the side of the road!