There’s only one image for this month’s Looking Back edition, but it’s kind of a two for one – one image, two renditions. In October 2014, I was attending a work-related conference at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. No, seriously, it really was a work-related conference! Obviously, this gave a couple of friends and me an opportunity to visit the World Showcase at Epcot that just so happened to coincide with the annual International Food and Wine Festival.
As we walked through the various pavilions of the World Showcase, my friends would sample the beverages being offered while I would look for interesting things to photograph. When we reached the Moroccan pavilion, I discovered this fountain with its colorful tiles and symmetry in an empty foyer of the pavilion’s restaurant.
While the image looked fine on the back of my camera, reviewing it on the computer when I got home revealed very subtle blurring caused by camera movement. But, by using Photoshop’s shake reduction filter, I was able to eliminate the blurring that would have otherwise sent this image to the recycle bin.
A Moroccan fountain adorned with colorful tiles, Epcot World Showcase, October 2014
A few years later, I discovered Photoshop’s Invert command to invert the colors of an image, and I began trying it out on a couple of my photographs. When I applied it to the fountain, I was stunned by the beautifully and absolutely surreal result.
A Moroccan fountain with colors inverted