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Canoeing the swamps and rivers of Florida I see interesting patters, both abstract and narrative, in the roots and vegetation, as they are reflected in the water. Here I saw an Extra Terrestrial

Sometimes I see faces in the tree roots at water's edge. Processing these images I crop, duplicate, mirror, saturate, colorize -- anything I can find in Photoshop to help me bring out the imaginary potential of the basic material.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 04.2017
Date Uploaded: 10.2018
Photo Location: McCoy, Florida, United States of America
Copyright: © Caroline Peppiatt