Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia - 23 May 2018 This started off as an image showing in close-up a dead cactus on Incahuasi, an oasis in the epic Uyuni Salt

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Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia - 23 May 2018 This started off as an image showing in close-up a dead cactus on Incahuasi, an oasis in the epic Uyuni Salt Flats of Bolivia. Because of the extreme dryness and salt, dead plants just dry out here rather than rot. But then I got adventurous and turned it into something more colorful and abstract, using a combination of Photoshop techniques including multi-layer blending, transformations and gradient mapping. Sometimes this process produces results which are utterly unrecognisable and mutated from the original - like this. I hope you like it!

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Size: 3888px × 5184px
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Photo credit: © Jon Bower / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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