It’s sad when someone else features a photographer you admire, and only then do you realize you’ve never featured him yourself. And so, all due credit to The Creators Project, we’d like to introduce you to the intense, creepy, haunting photo manipulations of French photographer and retoucher Cal Redback.

His series Treeheads combines portraits with plant life to create something surreal in the creepiest of terms.

The plants are slowly but surely eating away at their host… so much so that you can’t help but imagine that, a few days or weeks down the line, all that’s left is a shrub.

Treebeard #5 by Cal Redback on 500px.com

Treebeard #4 by Cal Redback on 500px.com

Treebeard by Cal Redback on 500px.com

Herbraiser by Cal Redback on 500px.com

Treebeard #2 in colors by Cal Redback on 500px.com

Treebeard #3 by Cal Redback on 500px.com

To see more of Cal’s cool and crazy work, check out his 500px account and click that follow button. You can also find him on Facebook if that’s your jam.