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Actually, I think he was peeking at me, wondering what I was doing there. They are quite near sighted (because their eyes are adapted for hunting fish under water), so he was probably just wondering where that green and black blob on the bank had come from… and was it anything edible?

Thanks, this was the epitome of my Golden Rule: ABC. Always Bring Camera. 😉

Thanks, this was an unexpected visitor to a small water I occasionally fish. I think he’s the better angler… and he knows it.

Thanks, I have other images from this unexpected encounter; I will process a few more and possibly post another one.

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Look what I found in one of my favorite quiet woodland pools.

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I understand that you don't like this image. The image was captured RAW and I subsequently processed it to give the "ghostly effects" seen in the above JPEG (hence the title and art/literary reference).

I didn't process the RAW file to give any High Key effects, and if you check my notes above, you will see that I've been careful NOT to make any statements about High Key images. I've supplied here another JPEG, straight from the RAW, with no post-processing (other than cropping to approximately the same dimensions, for comparison) changes applied to in-camera shot settings. This shows that I didn't start with an over-exposed RAW image. I admit to being a little confused by your assertion that I deliberately or accidentally over-exposed the image, as I can't tell if & when others have done that, just by looking at their post-processed JPEGS.

I just decided, as we are nearing Halloween, to post-process the RAW to give the resultant image a "ghostly appearance" and thereby make an image captured in April more relevant to this time of the year.

Not just the guys: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Darling

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Lewis

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Harvey

Some two-legged critters love Goldenrods, too. In the Bleak Mid-Winter, Downy Woodpeckers and Black-Capped Chickadees seek out the Goldenrod Galls and peck holes in them to extract the tasty grubs inside. And in the Late Spring, other critters seek the Galls after the flies have hatched and started a new life cycle. Those critters handcraft fishing bobbers from used, untenanted Galls.

Here’s a case in point. A rare, Triple Goldenrod Gall flower stem, designed by Nature and handcrafted using that original form, for a new life as a side slider bobber. Isn’t Nature Wonderful?

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Yes, I think it was Elton John who once described Kate Bush as “Artistic Marmite”; she’s definitely a polarizing influence in the industry. Elton credits her and Peter Gabriel with saving his life with this song: https://youtu.be/VjEq-r2agqc

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Understood. For this composition, I felt it worked. I wanted the fabric to appear to be more solid than the model, it was an artistic option I chose for this image, to fit a “ghost at the window” theme.

I’m now going to play with other shots in this series, using colour and some edge softening of the fabric, to try to tell a different story.

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