I love this psychedelic Buddha of yours. Extra nice Photoshop work on this one!

Well done!

very well done

I love this! The postwork seriously rocks. Now let's see ... I'm quite sure I have a picture of your bathroom Buddha. Maybe I'll do a comparison version with a different mood. Hmmmmm ... What fun! :)

I'd love to see your version, Tara.

It's lovely work, well done!

Nice effects.

Very nice work and postwork. When I first read the title, my mind went in an entirely different direction - not that is wrong, just different....

I love this shot. Wonderful artistic vision :)

I get a similar calming effect from Chuck Norris statues. A beautiful photo!

Very creative!

Fabulous postwork! I love it!

Superb postwork Claude.

lol, Mike...yeah, the title could mislead the more orthodox buddhists in the crowd...Well, I was a yogi (non-cloistered, ie, I lived in the secular world, dressed normally, etc, but was a yogi all the same), so buddhism is a very close sibling. You treated this with what one might call "chakric" colors, the hues associated with deeper states of meditation. And the outer edges of the 'halo' are in deep red, indicating flame, in concord with the mystical side of buddha. (I don't know if you postworked-in some of those flowers, or they were in the original, but they feel like flowers-of-flame here, which is fitting.) You probably know that a number of Buddhist monks---and some yogis---wear that same red, a saffron red, to symbolize burning their worldly life and leaving it behind. So you've got the right hues, for sure. It really looks like you've blended flowers into the picture; and if they're blended, you did it very well. Also, you added color to his chest and face, etc, very naturally (you followed the contours and sheen of the metal---I assume this is metal or some plastic with a metallic appearance). And you gave green for the ground beneath him, as it would be in nature. It's a gentle buddha with a somewhat western face (the older Indian buddhas developed rounded lips, eyes and nose, probably in consort with the facial types of Northern India back then, but also to symbolize the richness of speech and depths of sight---"eyes like the lotus petal," etc; but, in time, with the advent of the West and of Buddhism's move to the Orient, the features became more sharp and less bulbous, as you have here). That's just an aside about your sculpture, but it's a nice piece to begin with. And I like the grainy 'frame' around it, and I think buddha would approve because he speaks of dissolving the universe in the mind. (We used to joke about dissolving just one thing---like a pencil or an olive. Then we'd wake up and see the olive was still there, and snarl, "Damn!") (we were supposed to annihilate the concept not the actual 'thing', of course, but it would've been pretty cool to get rid of an artichoke for 10 minutes. Just, "I willed away my couch last night. Now I can't find the damned thing...") A very loving treatment of your buddha. (One of the venerated Sutras, the Lotus Sutra, opens up with a speech from Buddha; and when he's finished, all the buddhas past and future suddenly appear in the sky, and flowers the size of houses fall to earth. I remember when I first read that, I thought, "man, that guy's gotta be a helluva speaker!" Anyway---not to show disrespect!---your treatment here shows that 'aura' that the scriptures say he gave out. You probably also know the legends that say that when he was born---right out of the womb---he stepped forward and said "I've come to bring enlightenment to the world, and this will be my last life on earth". Exquisite! But I always wondered what his mother was thinking, as her newborn infant stood upright, walked, and said all that. She had to at least be thinking, "bright kid!")

Excellent postwork my friend and fantastic presentation!