Reflections on a Canal

This fine picture is of Winsome on the Monmouthshire and Brecon canal, being pedalled at a leisurely 4mph by Drs Kidd and Williams. It shows the boat quite well. The canal that day was rather muddy and opaque, but it was a fine day and the light was good, making for a very good (i.e. coherent) reflection off the surface. Winsome generates very little wake, but a wake is notoriously difficult to photograph. This photograph shows the structure of Winsome's wake rather well, with the whorls in the water creating the "illusion" of some post-processing with something like Photoshop, when the effect was completely "natural".

Here is another one which shows the wake rather better, although the distortion in the reflection is not quite as pronounced.