Checks & Balances is a new version of a several month old photo. Not only do I enjoy looking at those lines and shadows, but the title reminds me of how our government was designed, way back when. That is, with many checks and balances. Seems, though, we have mostly the "checks" these days, in that sense of being hauled up short, no going ahead.

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Fertility Dance is a brand new version of an over two year old photo. A photo that keeps generating versions; this one is the fifth. I'm not really jazzed about this newest version, but have nothing else I care to post or work on further so will share it anyway. Click here to see the previous posting of other edits, including the original.

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The original of Casting a Glamour, above, is over three years old. I just re-colored it this morning.

Dinner Now Serving, below, is another from that same batch of old photos. Those huge dark-tipped stamens seem not only to welcome but demand being fed from. Sadly, we don't have these amazing flowers in our garden every season. Someone once called them Easter Lilies. Though I'm not sure that's what they're actually called it certainly seems appropriate.

Although I've still got a lot to learn about photography, I've advanced some in the three years since taking these. I also have a camera with a higher pixel number. (That lower pixel count of my old camera has limited severely how much I can crop from these pictures before they go wonky looking.) I hope these blossoms show up again. I'd love, quite literally, to take another shot at pictures of them.

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Regretful above, and the other below, are both from that new folder of pictures I took a couple of days ago. They were just edited this morning and are of the same batch of roses but from different angles.

And this is Lingering Late:

Not sure I've yet begun to find that new "visual vocabulary" I've been yearning for, but at least I'm entertaining myself as I go through this clearly rather nostalgic mood.

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Green Glamazon, and the other two below, are in the same batch I posted from yesterday. There's something about the petal "textures" of this particular kind of rose that leads me down more than usually intriguing paths when I edit. Though to look at one "live" it doesn't appear to have quite as much variety within each petal.

Defiance below, is another shot of the same rose as in "Green Glamazon." And those "textures" are even more apparent here:

And finally below, Free at Last. This is clearly a familar way I work with my blossom photos, but how can I resist that fabulous rose center? (Not to mention that the background in the full rose picture is distracting and can't be cropped out in any satisfying way.)

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Baiting the Beauty and the other two below, are brand new photos. I had a lovely time by our memorial rose garden the day before yesterday. It was in just the right light so I even managed to take some straight forward shots of our early fall roses (one is below). Then even resisted the lure later to crop down to and fool with all of their fascinating centers. (Though I make no promise that I won't make other versions at another time of some of the decent straightforward shots I caught.)

This next one is Velveteen Dreams:

And this last is One Eye on Autumn. I may eventually (when I have the patience) color out that little slim pointy dash of leaf outside the lower right corner of the rose. Though I suspect it may actually provide a visual balance to the little branches coming out from behind the rose. In any event, I can always revert to the original if I don't like the change.

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