Well,my dear Syyd, this is a little 15 inches tree I found on the beach here in Cozumel and planted it on the sand. It is surrounded by some coral as you can see, but it was just laying on the sand. Once I had it in the computer,I copied the image and placed it on top of the original,then I splited it in half with a transparency tool and applied a soft ripple effect, then I erased the spots I didn't like. All this in photopaint,but I sincerely believe that the magic of this picture was achieved when I shot it, that little tree was shouting at me..."I want to be on your camera!"