7 time Mr. Olympia / Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger lunches with friends at Venice Beach. He was extremely pumped up from his training that day. It was difficult for him to eat his lunch. In order to reach his face, like a giraffe, he had to extend his head to further compensate for the difficulty of him having his arms so very stimulated that he had to make up the difference between his hand and his head, eventually enabling him to nourish himself.

This image was stitched, merged and re-created in Adobe photoshop to include the State capital as his crown and the Venetian arches and columns to enhance the genre of this conceptual environment.

Who would have known, that after 25 years later, from the time that this initial photograph was recorded, he would be elected as California's Governor and graciously crowned as the state leader. The original is Circa 1975

He loved both the original image and the re-created concept.