I LOVED working on this image.  I have an old hand-carved wooden buddha head that I got from a small shop in Rockport, Massachusetts.  It has a very strong grain which greatly enhances the beauty of the piece.

I took a picture of it, cropped it, and superimposed a picture I had on my phone of a blossom from a tulip tree; the ground was littered with them this spring.  Using Superimpose, I used a tonal feather-mask to gradually make the flower more and more transparent.  Working very carefully, it took hundreds of taps with the mask tool to get this effect that lets the buddha show through the flower petals.

I admit freely that this is not a very original image 🙂  But it is peaceful and serene, and was very fun to create.