dimensional doorway

I went out looking to capture an image today, but it wasn’t right.  What I found would of satisfied my need for iconic stairs, either up or down, but it wasn’t enough.  I went through four other previous images and tried to figure out what I could change to make something new.  This is an image I never worked on before, kind of a lost child who found its way back.  I spent three hours trying all sorts of combinations of layers an modes and finally rested on a simple manipulation.  This represents what I always hope to find when out shooting.  An opening, a portal, a new beginning, a creative source of consciousness… that I could walk up to and touch.