Something for the Weekend - Part 197 - Monstrous!

[davescm]

Thank you to @jane-e for creating our last 'BB-8' SFTW challenge, and to all who took part in it.

A couple of weeks ago many folk descended on Loch Ness, in Scotland, to search for the famous monster, which is said to inhabit the loch. No-one found anything, but the legend continues. At 23 miles long and 755 feet deep there is plenty of water there, but over the years there have only been a few grainy and blurry photographs of something in the water.

The following week, I was standing on the shore of the loch on a very calm morning and got to thinking that 'team Photoshop' could help put this right. So this is where you come in.

Can you show us your explanation of what the 'monster' might be or might look like?

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• Use the starter image as at least part of your own image entry.
• Anything goes, as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright, etc.
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• There are no prizes apart from the chance to practice, show off, or bring a bit of humour and fun. Don't be shy, join in and have a go!
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Have fun!

Dave

[davescm]

Welcome to SFTW Chezier. That's a nice job with the image, recolouring the foreground rocks helps keep the atmosphere throughout. I always thought it would be nice to have a house on the banks of the loch, but maybe not with that monster at the foot of the garden!

[JR Boulay]

In France, we also have a monster in the Villefort lake.
But it's easy to spot, hiding in late autumn when the water level rises, and revealing itself in summer when the water level falls.
It's made of stone, but it scares children from a distance.

(This is a real photo)

[Trevor.Dennis]

Good gracious!  That is incredible.  And you say that is a real photo with no additions?  The stegosaurus like scales on the monster's have to be what give life to this rock. This has to the fossilized remains of a real life dinosaur that fell asleep after gorging itself on fish from the lake, and got trapped by a sandstorm a few million years ago.

[JR Boulay]

It's not a rock, it's stones.
The Cévennes are masters in the art of building with dry stone.

[JR Boulay]

It seems that ProDesignTools also has information about the monster:

https://prodesigntools.com/adobe-creative-cloud-myths.html