... and this just keeps getting better !
Now I can sit back and follow up on you people talking to eachother ! I just love it !! :-D

On stockphotos/-images:
I'm with you there, bonestructure.
The stock images I used for the "Stirring Waters" was the right eye (your left) masked out from a full face, copied-n'-pasted, desaturated, up contrasted with curves and put on overlay blending mood. Then copied, flipped horiz and placed out as a left eye.
The second one is the buoy, isolated and copied from original, scaled down to less than 10% of original and Transform > Distort and -Perspective to "lay it down" on the surface followed by some curves adj and then erasing and shadows painting to "blend" with the waves.
Everything else is pure and genuine Photoshop.

And a very big thank you aprilgem and bonestructure for the stockphoto/-image links !
Yes, aprilgem, I am an iStockphoto account holder and have seen your image there. I've used a couple of images from iStock but non in this piece.
The Morguefile I already knew of, but the other two are new to me, so If you'll excuse me I've got two new stock image sites to scout.

A million thanks to you both !

-- Jiger --