Bixby Bridge Bench

Flatbed scan of 8 x 10 Toned Silver print.

Look familiar? While reading through a B+W (U.S.) mag, I instantly recognized David Ashcraft's print "The Bench" advert as being the bench in the span of Bixby Bridge on Hwy 1 in Big Sur not far from where I live. So.. okay, I had to make my own version, but not claim it as my own! This image is made from 2 negs, I switched skys in the wet darkroom by dodging the sky while enlarging the bench and roadway, then burned in a more interesting sky from another negative set up in a 2nd carrier.. How guilty am I? Is this stealing? By the way, I met David at his gallery near Yosemite and showed him the print, he liked it but wasn't interested in buying one, such is life.