Illustration for 'Life. or Something Like It'

I did this photomanipulation as an illustration for the science fiction story "Life, Or Something Like It", by J. Michael Neal which was published just before the new year in my online magazine  Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores   cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.c…
I hope you enjoy this -- and please check out my magazine!

I used a stock photo by phelandavion.deviantart.com/
The specific photo of his that I used was Mech Pilot STOCK III
Aside from that, I used stock courtesy of NASA and pixabay.