This composite photo is called "Rainbow", and was made by Karin Kuhlmann in 1996.This painting won "winner of the month" in the Corel World Design Contest in 1996. She went to school for photography, and graphic design and then worked as a commercial artist for over 25 years. She later started making graphic work for herself, and is quite successful.
To make this picture, I think that Karin took four separate photos and put them over top of a background with a frame. She took photos of a building with water in front of it, a puddle of water with a ripple in it, a rainbow, and the sky. I think that these photos are separate because the clouds in the sky look very zoomed in, and too close to the building to be real, a big body of water generally doesn't have that large of a ripple in it, and rainbows don't look as perfect as the one in this photo.
To make the water look how it does, I think she placed the photo of rippled water over top of the real water with building photo, used a clone stamp to get the reflections of the trees and building in the water, and then used a gradient with a lowered opacity for the colour.
For the outside of the photo, I think that Karin simply used a gradient background, a frame, and made bubbles by using stamps of 3-D like circles with colours that matched the ones used inside the framed picture.
I think that the result is very pleasing. It has depth, lots of things to look at, and uses analogous colours, for the most part so they look very well together.
Your right Carissa, Karin uses some digital painting skills along with merging photos. She was included in the slide show and the thing that I notice about her work is that she uses very bright colours, almost neon. This creates a very "Candyland" feel. Good analysis.
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