What's missing? - a bit of fun!

[Rik]

stand by I am just consulting my book of seafaring knots [and we are not talking about speed measurement here you understand...]

Well, I suppose I should not have indicated that I am in Reading, UK.

As for the removal.

I would like to say that the work was done in a programme called Aldus PhotoStyler, which was designed for Windows 95.
Do you remember that far back?!

So, it was very limited and all I used to do was to grab a part of the picture that I could suitably overlay over the top of what I was trying to erase. If you know what I mean?
I would not have had the skill to alter perspective or stuff like that.

[Su Lawrence]

The small blue and white building/object above/behind the big stand ... did you move that from the left-hand side of the stand (or from infront of it)?

Regards

Su

[Rik]

The small blue and white building/object above/behind the big stand ... did you move that from the left-hand side of the stand (or from infront of it)?

Regards

Su

Hi Su: I've actually erased (removed) something. Not moved it from here to there, if you know what I mean?

[Rik]

Thanks everyone for having a go.

Would you say that it's about time I posted the original?

Or do you think that others (and current) will want to try again?

[handrawn]

you erased something - but did not remove the object itself?

guess you must have taken out a shadow or a reflection then... possibly on the lake

[Rik]

Steve is the winner.

Here is the original.

[pauland]

Thanks for the reveal, Rik, though I don't understand why those shapes are on the water. We will let you off the dunking.

[Rik]

Thanks for the reveal, Rik, though I don't understand why those shapes are on the water. We will let you off the dunking.

paul: That's what caught my attention when I first saw it.

I thought it was quite surprising that those trees could be showing a reflection in the water.
I can assure you this photo/scene is not made up.

So, I decided to set about trying to erase the reflection.

Took me ages. I wish I had had PhotoShop with it's content aware erase or Xara's Magic erase!

[zaphodeist]

...content aware erase or Xara's Magic erase!

You've got both in your DP7 Rik

[Rik]

You've got both in your DP7 Rik

That's true John.

Unfortunately, neither the PhotoShop or Xara magic existed when I did the erasing some years ago.

I had wanted to post these photos for quite some time but I had misplaced them.