THE GROWING EDGE

Hm, what can I say about "The Growing Edge"? When I snapped this side view of curving cactus leaves I knew I was going to have fun later cropping and coloring. It also proved to be one of those rare pictures that offers several different ways of cropping that I like. So I copied both the original and an additional (yet to be completed) cropped version into my Other Photos album to fool around with at some future date.

OK, I'll share the rough original that's enticing me with some of those other overlapping curved shapes in the top half or so. By the way, more and more I find myself taking photos that I do not bother to frame carefully with an eye to composition. But just make sure I've captured an area I know I will want to abstract or highlight in some way. Maybe I can think of this sort of uncomposed/unframed original shot as being like the sketch underlying a later drawing or painting:



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‘til next take, may you enjoy life in the ever changing light,

[aka: Patricia Kelly] **** If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or photos, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”) ****

AT THE TAILOR'S

"At the Tailor's" is an old photo, taken after a wild fire. It was probably the 2009 late summer La Brea fire. Those are ashes, not dried rain drops, on the large blue canna leaf. As often with pictures I take of bright colors, and especially canna leaves, the colors were somewhat intensified by the camera. An "accident" I often welcome.

I usually have some idea of what sort of photo I'd like to post here. Today I didn't so I went to folder I rarely open, Other Photos. It has pictures that for various reasons have been disconnected from their Adobe numbered folders and/or are edits beyond the one saved edit that my ancient version of Adobe permits. I usually forget Other Photos is there; it just hangs out way at the end of my gazillions of Adobe folders.

This particular photo of mine is only now in my Other Photos folder as it was attached to and commented on in an email a while back from a friend. I'd lost it; probably deleting the original in some sort of frustration. (It may have been the ashes that bothered me, as I'm not so sure about them now.) She really liked it, commenting that the leaves look like fabric. Hence the title. Thanks, Eva, for the comment and the copy of the photo you found in a online album I'd forgotten I'd started back then.

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‘til next take, may you enjoy life in the ever changing light,

[aka: Patricia Kelly] **** If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or photos, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”) ****