text: An artist with a surreal take on the natural world uses Photoshop to create whimsical, mind-bending pictures that would give Salvador Dali a run for his money. Anil Saxena, from Mumbai, uses ingenious retouching to create pictures of anything from a woman hanging a zebra's stripes on the line to dry to a pair of hands knitting a green field. He prides himself on his digital manipulation techniques, saying: 'If the image is a success but my work goes unnoticed, I'm doing my job well.' A woman in a colourful sari hangs up a zebra's stripes on a washing line . The photographer who has a background in graphic design and CGI, initially retouched his pictures by hand. Once he  started digital retouching he was able to turn his pictures into more complex flights of fancy. According to his biography on Design Taxi, the artist,  says the real work begins when 'lesser mortals might think that the image is just perfect.' The art website Behance says: 'Anil enjoys developing stunning imagery. He believes colour grading is paramount.' A painter colours  a giraffe as he leans a ladder against the animal . A sink is utilised as a swimming pool by a group of tiny people . Anil's photo manipulations blend the everyday with the bizarre, such as a man in a boiler suit climbing a ladder to paint a giraffe's distinctive coat pattern. In another a crystal swimming pool in which beautiful people lounge in bikinis or take a dip, is realised as a sink and instead of a giant diving board, they're all underneath a huge chrome tap. In other images there's the juxtaposition of indoors and outside, so a woman's bed piled with feature duvets and pillows is standing on dunes by the sea - rather than in her bedroom. A picture called 'Bring Home Nature, Bring Home Joy, features a man riding a bicycle with a whole tree in his bike's basket, which sheds leaves against the setting sun. A woman is overjoyed to find her bed in the middle of nature, by the sea . A man on a bike carries a tree in his basket in this image called 'Bring home nature, bring home joy' A couple sit and admire a setting sun by their parked bikes... on top of a forest . A pair of newlyweds have a moment by a lush four poster bed in a field by some trees . The top of a forest is expertly blended with a grass meadow in another shot. At first glance it appears that a couple are relaxing together on the grass, look closer and it's clear that they are in fact sitting on dense tree tops. In an amusing image, a pair of giant hands are seen to be knitting a green textured field. The neat rows of crops extend outwards to the horizon but in the foreground, the knitter holds up the green yarn with its neat knit-purl stitching visible underneath it. Hands knit a blanket field using green yarn. Anil tweeted this image with the words: 'Go Green' Two idealistic worlds appear at once, as if on two levels of a bunk bed . A group of women dressed in colourful saris collect water from a giant green bottle . A photograph of Indian women dressed in saris collecting water to bring home is given a surreal edge. Rather than visiting the local well, river or other natural water source, the women are seen scaling a steep ladder to reach a platform on the top of a huge green bottle full of water. In a shot titled, 'Destiny favors those who make their own path', a motorway is being lain on the road from a giant tape dispenser, wielded by a huge hand. Following a similar theme, in another shot a couple lay down rolls of paper printed with road markings in the middle of the desert. A miniature man grooms a young man's brows using a lawnmower . A giant hand holds a tape dispenser emitting the grey tarmac road being laid down . A couple lay down rolls of tarmac printed on paper on a desert road . A man installs a mural of the sea in the middle of the desert, creating an idyllic beach view . The beautiful sea view is in fact an artificial backdrop fixed to free-standing poles on an otherwise bare desert landscape in another picture. In the foreground, a man is up a step ladder fixing the 'view' in place while the tools of his trade lie on the sand. And a scene of hot air balloons floating over green fields and hills is not all it seems, formed of red onion 'ballons', broccoli floret 'trees'  and potato 'hills'. Red onions take the place of hot air balloons as potatoes and broccoli make up the land below . A little girl flies a kite in a field... or is it a broom? Street workmen install a quaver in a series of musical notes along an electric transmission line .
target: Digital artist Anil Saxena, from Mumbai, creates surreal images out of pictures of the natural world .
  Uses Photoshop to turn pictures into flights of fancy that make viewers question what they're seeing .
  Whimsical surreal shots created thanks to painstaking doctoring using image editing software .