This was created by compositing three separate images. The Pyramids of Egypt, The Seas of Dahab and Rutland Water. Many adjustment layers and masks were needed in an attempt to balance the shot as each component was taken with different lighting conditions at different angles with different cameras in different countries.

These are the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. This image began as five separate shots. Instead of developing each RAW I stitched them together as jpegs. Once stitched and cropped the resultant image had a low dynamic range. To fix this I used levels layers and in some cases individual channel levels to keep the sky blue. Finally I used a Fractalius layer to add some glow to the image.

These are the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. Lightening is hard to shot during the day. You need a very long shutter speed to stand a chance of catching a strike. But when you point at the sky it does not take long to overexpose even with the smallest aperture. This shot was taken through the window of a moving bus so I relied on this technique to get my lightening.

Since posting this image has been accepted for stock.

These are the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt. This started life as a very flat image with a low dynamic range. To bring it to life I developed it in the cameras own raw developer with a tone curve and in Photomatix to produce an HDR image. I blended the two in Photoshop taking the best bits from each image. Interestingly the HDR image had extra pixels round every edge so it had a higher pixel count than the cameras own software.