And here it is, my first photomanipulation. Photoshop can be kinda scary, but I came fairly close to what I was going for, which is a nice surprise.
Creating this would have been impossible without just the right images:
Body [link] , from Brian, who has a fantastically useful collection of stock photos.
Hawk image [link] , a great image in its own right, used by special permission from the photographer, Amanda Gerbino.
Yay for fellow Deviants!
The idea for this image is from the book "Perdido Street Station" by China Mieville. Yagharek is one of the main characters, a garuda. A very lonely, miserable, angry garuda, for obvious reasons.