Surreal Pictures Combine Two Photos into One Perfect Scene

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We’re loving this playful work from photographer Stephen McMennamy, up on MyModernMet.

Although these combo photos look effortless, McMennamy is frank about the sometimes-arduous process. It’s all about finding those perfect images; sometimes, they come from the ComboPhotos mastermind himself, or he’ll borrow from other photographers.

Regardless of how McMennamy sources the pictures, this quest can take years. One example features a taxidermy elk whose antlers are replaced with human hands. On Instagram, McMennamy explains how it was made: “For quite a while now I’ve been trying to find the glass slipper of deer heads to make this shot work. Often times it came down to the perkiness of the ears, coupled with the wrong camera angle that kept this one just beyond my reach. That was until a recent trip to the Elks Lodge 725 in Kalispell, Montana, where they had a smorgasbord of antlered creatures to chose from (and a chair for me to stand on).”

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