A SNEAK PEEK

Not sure how I ultimately feel about "A Sneak Peek." Both literally and metaphorically. The latter first: I had a dream last night in which the voice of Time told me the next ten minutes are lucky -- and how's that for a sneak peek. As to this photo? I like the feel of it, but ... I don't think it goes anywhere. Much like that dream ten minutes of good luck it's just a flash that can't come across. Yet I'm still drawn to it. Today I'm associating that bridge first to some future transition and then to a rainbow. Hm, maybe that's why I haven't deleted this pic. It keeps telling me stories and so like Scheherazade gets to survive another day. :-)

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SPELUNKERS

"Spelunkers" is of a type of cactus bloom I'm always delighted to see opening. Actually, it's questionable if there is a type of catus bloom that isn't fascinating to me in one way or another. (For another view of this type see "Headlights" posted here earlier.) I initially named this "Interrogation" but on looking at it today I saw all these little cavers with their leader in that "mouth." I think my need for some lightness trumps "Interrogation," at least today. :-)

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REMEMBERING WINGS and THE HEART KNOWS

"Remembering Wings" is one of my oldest pix and an early favorite of mine. After choosing it to post today I found myself playing around with another shot I took that day two years ago of the same shadows, naming it "The Heart Knows":


Neither pic wows me. But I rest with them now as they are, old comforting friends.

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FROLICKING WITH MERMAIDS

"Frolicking with Mermaids" is just where I'd like to be today after a very hard day yesterday. It's the apparent movement of these leaves/ferns that entices me, as if undersea. They weren't actually being blown around, by the way, but stock still in the shade. And they weren't even the central focus of the shot. What I'd tried to capture was in too much bright sunlight and just got "whited out." But here were these leaves, waving from the corner of the pic to get my attention ...

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TICKLISH

No real reason for posting this one other than I've always liked it. (It's two years old and just recently slightly re-edited.) And, well, it tickles me somehow. Plus I do always enjoy having captured a pic of yet another way in which rose petals unfold themselves from their flower's center. A bit like people, ey?

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TAKING TO THE AIR

"Taking to the Air" is one of those pix I'm not sure about. I both like and find that slightly askew vertical pole distracting. Maybe I'll try re-taking this shot some day making sure that beam is straight up and down. Given past experience with "re-taking" shots it probably won't work, but (bad pun alert!) it might be worth a shot. Or maybe once this crop of the pic has cooled -- which I just did for the umpteenth time for this post -- I'll be content with it. It could happen! It could ... :-)

By the way this is a brand new photo, just taken day before last on a lovely walk around our grounds. I haven't done a photo walk in a while and really enjoyed it.

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GALACTIC CENTER

I'm totally seduced by the colors of "Galactic Center" (computer generated). So don't really know what else to say about it. The original photo is of a lone climbing pink rose, on a black pole, in shadow. Doesn't work at all, I hadn't even lined the pole up straight in the shot. I don't know why, but I really dislike giving up on a photo without fiddling to see if I can "reclaim" something about it. (Certainly not for a shortage of shots!) In this case, I'm glad for that persistence.

I was tempted to title this pic "Eye Candy," as that's what it almost feels like to me physically, somewhere in my brain's vision and/or memory centers. Further on the subject of pic titles. Having to sit with a photo when a title doesn't just surface spontaneously is often an amazing process. For instance, although I'd looked extensively at this pic when I first edited it, sitting with it just now, waiting for a title was mind boggling. I saw shades of color, and movement in the shapes from shade to shade, that I had not noted before. As I've said here before how can we see and yet miss so much? For me, it seems to have a lot to do with being in a rush. Instead of letting go and simply wandering, so that the photo itself can speak to me. Yes, stumbling into that same timeless space I find when I give way to a poem writing itself and when I first see a pic on my computer screen.

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