Left or right - which Swan is fake?

I know I am boring you with sunrise images of always the same reservoir, but additionally to an awesome intense morning sky I have a question for you today.

Which Swan is fake ...
... left or right?

In mid-March 2023 I have been on a morning walk at the reservoir nearby, just as so many times before. The days before we have had bad weather and so I didn't expect to see an exciting sunrise, but I was quite wrong with that expectation.

When I arrived at the lake the deep hanging clouds started to turn red like in the image below, and later all clouds from the horizon till the ones above me were burning - an awesome fiery morning sky.

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Now, you might have seen such a fiery sky before, so I want to show you the icing on the cake because a swan was so kind to swim very slow into the scene, stopped and then he swam back into the shadows.

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This all happened quite fast, but I was able to take one reasonable sharp photo and the reflection was great, but unfortunately the swan was not in the right position. I've told him to keep swimming and then turn back, but unfortunately he didn't listen to me 😉

I love the image anyway, but I just had to give it a try and to photoshop the guy into a more pleasing position, and now comes my question: left or right swan - which one is fake?

As fast as it began, the colours faded away after a short while and a little later the sky was gray in gray again, but I've been happy to have got up early enough to see such an awesome sunrise. And I was happy to be able to get a photo of a swan under a burning sky, no matter where the position of the big white bird was.

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I have so many sunrise images from the reservoir, but I'll wait a while until I make the next post with such photos, promised 😉

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