In this Photoshop era, Uelsmann continues to forsake digital manipulation, as in this 2006 untitled image made from 3 photos, a raven, a tree trunk and his wife’s hands holding a bird’s nest he found outside his window. “It is an incredible leap of faith to think maybe this tree could blend into these hands,” he says. “But the camera is a license to explore.” http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/before-there-was-photoshop-these-photographers-knew-how-to-manipulate-an-image-36808349/?no-ist