Raster Self Portrait

Explain how this collage is a self portrait of you.
I believe this is a self portrait of me because it encompases quite a bit of who I am. I am and always will be a creature of the wild, never to be tamed and enjoying freedom to it's fullest. I see the beauty in northen nature where others see only frozen wastelands and ruthless beasts. This picture holds small inklings to how my sprit and soul really are and feel, even if they are in a place that is nothing like where they wish to be. I am all about being who you really are, finding and portraying your true self, no matter what other people think.

Name the tools and techniques you used to create your raster self portrait collage.
Changed Opacity on Moon Layer; used 45 opacity eraser to remove hard edge. Soft Light Blending mode.
Changed sky color with color balance on bg layer, and then changed total BGs Color Balance to match moon picture.
Used eliptical marquee to surround wolf and face layers to remove excess and create 30px feathers
Used clone stamp tool on wolf to remove tracking collar.
Used quick select tool to select rock in foreground; cut, paste & + drop shadow
Pasted waterfall photo, used 45 opacity eraser to soften edges; used eyedropper to take color sample from BG layer and used Color Replacement brush to make waterfall have the same color hue as BG to blend with BG.
Burned trees on BG layer surrounding waterfall.
Pasted geese flying. Erase bg by hand, go over black birds (to darken) with black paint brush by locking layer transparency. Added small drop shadow. Used Layer > Matting > Defringe to remove excess white pixels.
Added two-tone gradient over entire picture to grey top of photo more and deepen the blue at the bottom. Lowered Opacity.
Added text with color from sky. Added drop shadow. Used Warp Text and adjusted Wave settings to make the words seem to fly away with the birds.

Explain the rule of thirds and how you used it in your raster self portrait collage.
For rule of thirds, the wolf is on the lower left quadrent. My picture is on the upper right intersection. The birds and text are focused in the upper left quadrent, and small parts of them flow into the upper middle.

Include your image links.
Migrating Geese
Wolf
Moon w/ sky
Waterfall
Mountains (Image 9)