Sheltering the Light is a brand new photo, just taken yesterday.

And here's the unfussed with original, Dancing Around:

I have friends here who'd make sour faces at "Sheltering the Light,"yet it's my favorite of the two. Though I don't dislike "Dancing Around," it's just doesn't offer anything new. And that last sentence gives me a little laugh. I'm sure digital art/photographers who are far more experienced than I am with the various capabilities of computer editing, would find even my first version rather too familiar. However, making these sorts of edits offers me an opportunity to follow my imagination, and that's very welcome. Maybe once I have a more sophisticated editing program, its new functions will further expand how I manifest that imagination. (Coming closer to that goal, by the way. I may actually be able to replace my beleagured 12 year old computer, sometime in early 2013.)

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All Hallow's Eve is one of my really old pictures, that I made this new version of this morning. Halloween and the week or so leading up to it, is a particularly raucus time where I live. Our retirement community is a little bubble of an anomaly in blocks and blocks of University of California/Santa Barbara student housing. And the students are generally, shall I say, celebratory every weekend. But Halloween? UCSB is famous for it's wild Halloween partying that draws crowds of out-of-towners as well. I'm not complaining. Being a former life-long New York City resident, I am able to concentrate or sleep through almost anything. I'm just commenting on the particular trappings of this season where I now live. Though I must admit hearing the ambulance/first responder sirens approaching is a bit nerve wracking on a "normal" weekend, much less Halloween. Until they pass by I can't know whether or not it's one of our retirement community residents to be taken to the hospital (which does happen regularly).

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Foot Bath was just re-worked this morning from one of my oldest photos (three and a half years). Nothing much to say about it except that those sorts of huge, above ground tree roots fascinate me. In the original photo it always suggests lion's paws to me. Which I didn't move all that far from once I started fooling around with it today.

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Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep is another really old photo, just re-worked this morning. I've always liked those lines and shapes. But in the original/natural greens they just didn't "pop." I think inverting and changing the colors helped bring them out. Or maybe I've just become so overly familiar with all my old pictures, that I need the quirky to satisfy my eye at all.

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Life Sketch is a recent photo, just re-worked this morning. I have two other saved versions of this one crop, and made several others I didn't bother to keep. The other saved ones are brightly colored but just don't do anything all that interesting. And I'm not "over the hill" about this version above but do feel drawn (you should pardon the pun) to something about it. Maybe it's because I've been thinking a lot about doing some drawing and sketching again. Haven't done any in years and I've been having that itch again. The same one I had as a child to get something down on paper that had grabbed my eye. Photography satisfies that urge to some degree. But it's not the same, not by a long shot (forgive that pun, too).

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