NIGHT MARES, DANCING FOR THE MOON, & MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON

"Night Mares" is the first of what turned out to be three new photos in a row that wound up with a night theme. If I'd stuck with my original leaning for a name for this one, it would have been the first of three with a specifically moon theme. (Forgive me if I repeat myself, but this is about the time in our moon's cycle I usually begin getting a bit weird. I.e., as early as a week and a half before full. It's actually the waxing gibbous phase to which I react most intensely. What a friend and I refer to as PMS [pre-moon syndrome] :-D.)

Here's the second of the three, "Dancing For The Moon" --

This third one is "Mountains of the Moon" --

In all three of these pictures it was the curving patterns that caught my eye and kept me working at finding coloring to support them. And just as under moonlight, I feel I've barely caught those visions by their vanishing tails/tales.

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AT THE GATES, AGAINST THE WALL, & EXPECTANT

The color of the bougainvillea in "Lighting the Way" knocks my socks off. Beyond the fact it's just a delicious color, I think there's a deep childhood memory tugging. We lived in Florida when I was a toddler and some of my earliest memories are of colorful flowers.

And another in the same color family as the bougainvillea, "Writing on the Wall." Actually the light bouncing off that white wall behind these petals makes the color lighter than it is. This epiphyllum bloom is really a deep red, with that undertone of pink that comes out when back-lit or in strong sunlight.

Now, relief from bright color in "Expectant." I caught a couple other shots of this just-about-to-rain sky yesterday, but they need work yet. I caught that fanning out banana leaf plant silhouette in this picture, in a failed shot a while back so was happy to catch it better this time. This particular photo is the type I always put in my "Haiga, notecard..." category (among other categories) as it will nicely accommodate lettering in that sky space.

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HERE AT LAST

So here's a post at last (you should pardon the pun) that's not only just one photo, but an unfussy one. I wish the title, "Here At Last," were true in more than the obvious way. But maybe posting a sunny picture will encourage a sunnier outlook on my part, as well. It certainly serves to remind me how glorious our memorial rose garden is this year and not to go by it without at least stopping to enjoy it all, if not also to take new photos.

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IN HER CHILD'S EYE, OF MOATS & BEAMS, WAIT FOR ME! & LINES OF SIGHT

"In Her Child's Eye" is a self-portrait. (I really do have eyelashes; they're just white so rarely show up in photos.) A recent digital phtogrgraphy newsletter had an article on taking a self-portrait a day for a year. Hm, I thought. Intriguing challenge. I'd most certainly have to begin using my camera's timer and do deliberate arranging of "scenes." So I've decided to give it a try. Not so much as it's my favorite subject (only partly a joke :-D) but because it will push me to learn more about my camera, lighting, and still-life (if you will) arrangement. This first one is grainy as it was taken in low light with no flash. But I sort of like the softness the graininess adds to it.

This next below, "Of Moats & Beams," is focussed both literally and figuratively very differently.

That's enough self-portraits for today. I'll probably be posting more sporadically as the year progresses, so be forewarned.

And now to clear your visual palate, this next photo below is a new one taken on the grounds of the retirement community where I live. It's another of those epiphyllum buds I so enjoy looking at.

And this last one, "Lines of Sight," was taken just a few steps away from "Wait for Me!" This particular white wall almost always has intriguing shadow shapes on it.

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