Anchor in a Storm

Out for a Sunday walk, I came across this river. It's normally quite placid but heavy rain in the hills had swelled it to a wilder state. It was worth taking a series of pictures.

A while later, I saw this anchor and chain in the street of a naval town. Then the idea came to use it with the stormy water.

• The anchor and chain were cut out with the Pen Tool.

• Two images from the river were combined to make a larger image.

• The combined image was Colorized with Hue & Saturation and given extra contrast.

• The anchor was dragged on to the stormy water image.

• The anchor layer was duplicated and given some Motion Blur.

• The opacity of the Motion Blur layer was reduced so that it did not dominate the sharp anchor too much.

• In the Layers panel, masks were added to the two anchor layers.
  Using a black brush the rear anchor blade was partially concealed to make it look as though it was under water.

• After merging the two anchor layers, the anchor was Colorized a dark red to give a stronger contrast against the blue water.

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