View of the Man though the structure of the top floor of the Temple. Framed to catch the flare of the sun in the upper corner. When I saw the potential for the composition, I really wanted to shoot it as a companion to my favorite Temple shot from Burning Man '08, "Stairway to the Sun."
This image is actually a digital composite of the scans of two consecutive frames of the same scene, shot just seconds apart. In one, the row of light posts and the Man had subtly yet noticeably better clarity and detail. But the sun flare from the next shot had much prettier "star" points.
I didn't artificially "create" anything or add/remove anything that wasn't in actuality present. I just combined the "top half" of one frame with the "bottom half" of the next.
There was a little bit of extra structure at the left of the scene that I found distracting and cropped out, resulting in a slightly taller and narrower image than the original aspect ratio.