About the Image(s)

Component Photos:
The eagle in the gift shop was taken with an iPhone 15 Pro.
The photo of breath vapor was taken with a Sony A6000 outdoors on a cool and humid night. I had my wife hold an led flashlight as she exhaled and I took the shot. Unfortunately, I have lost the camera settings.
The images of the US Capitol, the swastika, and the GOP emblem were all taken off the internet.

I spent a lot of time extracting the eagle from the gift shop photo. The reflections and lights were a big challenge - thank heavens for Photoshop AI in this case. I don’t think I could have worked with this image otherwise.

The photo of breath vapor, as I recall, required very little editing in Photoshop except for superimposing a rotated version over the original to help fill the screen.

For the capitol image, I extracted the subject, and spent a good while adjusting the brightness/contrast of the various areas of illumination. Ultimately, I decided to blacken the Capitol - it was easy and also enhanced the mood of the piece.

For the swastika / GOP symbol, I selected the round part of the GOP image, then combined it in a psd with the swastika and resized it to match the white center of the swastika and then played with different opacities so that both symbols were clearly visible.