Puddle Portal 🔥

A puddle, window, mirror, or dish of water near you has stopped reflecting the sky — it reflects somewhere else entirely. About 45 minutes.

Every challenge has its own word — it's your entry signature, so the piece is clearly made fresh for this one. This challenge's word is ECHO.

Steps

1. Find a reflective surface — a puddle, a window, a mirror, a dish of water. Photograph it clean, with a handwritten note showing the word ECHO in frame. This is your "before".
2. Replace only the reflection with a completely different place — a desert, a beach, deep space, another city. Everything around the reflection stays as you shot it.
3. Match the original's light and perspective — if the surface warped the reflection in the original, the new world warps the same way.
4. Add one small hint that spills out of the reflection — a grain of sand, a sudden leaf, a wet footprint from the other side.

What to Submit

Before and after images, with the ECHO note visible in both. In the notes:

where it leads | <one line — where does your portal go?>
spill | <the detail that escaped>

⚠️ Important

• Hand-made only — no AI. If AI is part of how you work, skip this one.
• Only the reflection changes — the rest stays real.
• Both shots use the same surface, same framing, taken by you.