The original for The Pull of the Past, above, is over three years old. I just made this version today. Same old, same old ... memories, the past ... maybe it's because fall is here. (Yeah, and if you buy that there's a bridge in Brooklyn I can sell you, too.)

The original for Adrip With Starlight, below, is from that same batch of old pictures as "The Pull of the Past," and was also just done today:

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Facing It Together is a very new photo. I'm not all that jazzed about it but it has something that prompts me to share it here. Of course, I'm probably going to crop it way down to that wide open center on the right, in some future version. But I also sort of like the color contrasts in this crop and that sense of companionship (who's wistfully projecting?).

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Tumbling, above, is a fairly new photo. It's quite a contrast in "feeling tone" for me to the other photo I'm posting today. "Tumbling" seems to be in a soft introversion process, a welcome tumbling toward stillness. (My first thought for a title was the name of an old song/movie, "Looking for a Soft Place to Fall." But that seemed a bit much for this small picture.) It's heavily cropped but hardly edited otherwise.

While this somewhat older picture below,Can You Hear Me Now?, gets right up in the viewer's face, so to speak. It's heavily cropped and color-manipulated:

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Warning Bells, above, is a new version I made about a week ago of a year old photo to accompany a dream poem post on my dreams & poetry blog. These bells are on a narrow island just outside our retirement community front gate. A view I enjoy at all different times of day and in all kinds of weather.

The one below, A Matter of Pattern, is two years old and almost the same view but back behind the closed gate, with the bell pole barely discernible outside on the obscured island:

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Bearding the Rose, above, is a recent photo; one of three versions (so far).

Hernando's Hideaway, below, is an even more recent photo and one of two versions (so far):

My recent penchant for producing many versions of a photo has to do with how suggestive they are. However, it has even more to do with my just not feeling satisfied with what I've been producing. As I mentioned here not too long ago, I've been yearning for a "new visual vocabulary." At that time I was thinking that this involved some way of seeing interior to myself. But I'm now wondering how much it has to do with wanting actual new vistas to photograph. I've not been off these grounds in a long time. Then again, everything is truly in how we look at it. And given the way I've been seeing (and thinking) even new vistas might not please me right now.

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Letting Off Steam, above, was just taken and edited a couple of days ago. Not much editing; just some minor cropping at the edges and slight brightening to bring out the clouds against that lovely blue sky. Just slightly behind and to my left were more gorgeous clouds above our retirement community buildings. But that's where the sun was starting to set and it was just too bright so the photos I took did not really work.

With the possible exception of this one below that I cropped way down, called O'er the Ramparts. Second day in a row I've waxed vaguely political. Think maybe all the election advertising, campaigning and debating is getting to me?

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