Since my health was troubling me at the time, I felt that I was not up to the task of doing the fragmentation, sliverization and use of copious amounts of different burls to achieve the original background forest and wanted the bridge to be the main character.

The background forest was created as the first marquetry piece. I selected the sky using American Red Gum to achieve the affect I wanted then penciled in the trees to just below their event horizon of the forest behind the bridge. Cut these in using standard Marquetry practice and select different veneers for the different trees.
I horizontally inverted the image as I felt that the traffic approach to the eye looked nicer.
The two parts, the bridge and background were then fused together as one, using the window method by taping the photo, which was now my pattern, to the tree marquetry.

It was sanded with 120/600 grit then 5 coats of sanding sealer were applied. Between each application the surface was sanded with 600 grit using a flat sanding block. It was finished with 3 coats of Satin, wipe on polyurethane varnish and finally polished with Renaissance wax. It is all Scalpel cut.