GRAFFITI BRUSH & DARK BLOSSOMING

"Graffiti Brush" above was great fun to have emerge at last. I'd reversed the colors, trying to further bring out the alien look these opening sea onion blossoms always have (at least to me). But it just sort of sat there on my screen as if to say "Now what?" Then I fooled around even more with the colors, getting away from the usual purples and blues that show up when I reverse photos of the greenery around here and, yes, it had arrived. Then it was just a matter of cropping. (You can see another shot of this same sea onion blossom, colors reversed but unchanged, here.)

The below "Dark Blossoming" is another one in which I reversed the colors and then further changed the results just a bit to bring out the variety of colors in the agapanthus bud:

You may notice that bit of spider silk from the right bottom of the bud down to the bottom edge of the picture. I tried all sorts of things to bring that out more (IMHO it works with the darkness of the aganpanthus here) or to fade it out completely. But had to settle at last for it being barely there. I'd paint it out by mouse in the Paint program but that is such a frustratingly painstaking chore for a hand that isn't quite as dextrous as it used to be. I probably should start a category for photos to work on once I get my drawing pad up (and find it actually works and that I can work with it). But that has to wait for a new computer system that can handle yet another program on it.

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