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Giza, Egypt

Sometimes its not about knowing what to do, but rather how to do it. Egypt has an easy choice and I just needed the right angle. I wanted both the pyramid and the sphinx in the same frame. After that, the rest is just adding detail and choosing the color palette. So, here it is:


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