Carina Nebula

This craggy fantasy mountaintop enshrouded by wispy clouds looks like a bizarre landscape from Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, which is even more dramatic than fiction, captures the chaotic activity atop a pillar of gas and dust, three light-years tall, which is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars.

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Inspiration from 7500 light years away - pretty cool eh! Looks like a Wizard with beard holding his staff to me

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So, time to model for the shot

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Using Photoshop's amazing tools to warp the image

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On the Mac, Photobooth is a great tool if you play around with it. These are crab sections collected from the beach near me and mirrored in Photobooth

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On the Mac, Photobooth is a great tool if you play around with it. These are crab sections collected from the beach near me and mirrored in Photobooth

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On the Mac, Photobooth is a great tool if you play around with it. These are crab sections collected from the beach near me and mirrored in Photobooth

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