I threw this entry together the last day, I have been super busy lately so I didn't have a ton of time. I was never truly satisfied with it, I had a good vision but the time limitation got me. I really would have rather had her laying in the water looking up at us, but I couldn't figure out how to do it in a photograph with the limited time I had. So I decided just to have her walking up out of the water.
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This lacks the darkness of tone I associate with Poe, It looks more like a Japanese folk tale where the object of fear is often very beautiful. Never the less it is in the cream of the crop for this challenge.