These were always my most manipulated photos.
Early in clerkmanifesto's photography era I started taking detailed, close up pictures of churning water and waterfalls, mostly in my little Shadow Falls Creek that I have been visiting regularly for years. These have been the subject of a great many clerkmanifesto posts, and the pictures I have taken have been the starting point for my interest in photo manipulation as I sought to heighten these pictures, intensify them, and bring out their dramatic and abstract qualities.
So of all of these collections of remasters/reimaginings of my old photos, these were always the most likely candidates for this process.
As this is far the populous category in this remastering project (outside of maybe the flower pictures, which came before we started this), and out of respect for viewer fatigue, I will split the water pictures over two different posts. We will visit the second part later on in the project when you're thirsty again.
While I will say these pictures have come a long way from their native in camera photos, you may be inclined to think they are mostly fabrications at this point. But these water pictures would still be surprisingly recognizable to the original pictures, whose strong lighting and intense focus, detail, and close up views brought forth intriguing natural effects to begin with. Despite all the mark ups and saturations, and AI work, these remain, in the end, pictures of water.
