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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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I can confirm: that's the real one. I've seen it in pictures. 😂
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That's what we needed - an indistinct picture that would fit in with the 'real' images we see of the 'monster'
Dave
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Cool image 🙂
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It seems to have got suddenly cold there Ronald!
Dave
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Or perhaps we are our own monsters
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Indeed - I hope, if we see it it is more like your first image than your second JR 🙂
Dave
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Hi everyone!
Maybe the monster is from the dinosaurs era, here's the first image of it as a baby lol
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Just out for a paddle at the loch-side 🙂
Dave
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Beware the Loch Ness Monster Trucks!
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This one reminds me of a certain Top Gear episode. I think they actually managed to get to France which is beyond amazing, but I have a feeling that a lot of Top Gear's content was staged, or possibly flat out faked, so we'll take that with a pinch of salt.
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That's what will happen if the loch moves to Iceland. They seem to have a lot of crazy drivers over there! :-0
Dave
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@davescm wrote: Can you show us your explanation of what the 'monster' might be or might look like?
I'm pretty sure the monster looks like this:
Jane
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My wife tells me that is Cookie Monster, in which case it might as well be a picture of me. When my doctor put me on cholesterol meds, I thought 'Excellent! I can eat all the cakes and cookies I like now'. Unfortunately, by wife, who is a retired nurse, disabused me of that.
Bill Gates was so right with his #1 Rule of Life: 'Life is not fair. Get over it.'
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Unfortunately, my wife, who is a retired nurse, disabused me of that.
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I would call that "extremely fortunate", Trevor! 😊
Jane
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Yay Jane - that is much friendlier than many of the monsters, and I would be happy to meet this one on the banks of the loch!. Great job with his underwater feet 🙂
Dave
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We have a similar but even more scary monster specific to the uk !!
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@EuanWilliamson Oh no ! I thought he'd sunk long ago .... ! 🙂
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Whatever happened to Noel Edmunds?
Bugger! Sometimes ignorance really is bliss. Five minutes ago I was happy not knowing what I know now, because this is what I just read on Noel Edmund's Wikipedia entry:
The only upside is he lives near Auckland, and we barely count the North Island as properly New Zealand, and Auckland... Well lets just say there is a reason Aucklanders are called JAFAs
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We don't get all of the U.K. shows where I live, so I had to look up Mr. Blobby. Is he always disgusting or did I just catch a bad video?
Jane
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Goofing around with generative fill
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The man on the shore might be thinking 'That's one heck of a figurehead on that boat'. Until said figurehead turns around and eats the people on the boat. The man on the shore would be too busy running away to think about anything after that!
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How Nessie avoids attention by leaving unnoticed,
and settling elsewhere (SFTW 52) as Petra, to be hidden in plain sight after folding her wings,
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