Fighting Mask_RLP0098

This image, Fighting Mask, is the second iteration of a series of images taken on the banks of the River Chelmer during COVID. The outcome reached was completely unknown at the outset, and I was exploring techniques based on a visiting speaker (Mike Curry) to Chelmsford Camera Club. The original file was shot with the light reflecting off the water, through a tree on the opposite bank of the river, and a sequence taken after a duck had swum through breaking up the calm surface. The original file was cropped, copied and reversed, stitched together. The original images had some colour temperature adjustments. However, the original image felt as if it had more to offer, and rotating it 180 degrees produced a second image. In my imagination the rotated image looked similar to a medieval fighting mask. It's completely unique, in that the original file is sunlight through branches of a tree, reflected on a calm river surface ultimately disturbed a little by a passing duck, none of which could be repeated.