Saturday, December 1, 2012


Eye Opening is a the second re-working I did of this very old photo this morning. (Another of my earliest, taken three and a half years ago.) The other version, "Dark Matter," accompanies my dream poem post today. I much prefer "Eye Opening," above. Mostly because both inverting and changing the color in "Dark Matter" made it lose too much focus, leaving no wiggle room in which to improve the contrast.

Just for comparison, here below is the original. It's called Waltz of the Brides and I may have posted it here some time ago.


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Friday, November 30, 2012


Windless Afternoon is one of my oldest photos, making it only months short of four years old. If I could still clamber across the squishy lawn behind this arbor, the view would be exactly the same. That woman in the distance has long since moved out. But on any given day, during any given hour someone is making that walk into A-Building. It's a messy photo but still interests me which is why it's survived many cullings. All I did to it this morning was brighten it and crop the edges a little bit. Oh, and I also gave it its name today.

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Thursday, November 29, 2012


Cascade is from June of 2010, and this is the version of it from then as well. It evokes a few things for me, but today I think of Santa's beard. Probably because I posted about Santa to my dreams & poetry blog today. All the ads about Christmas sales must be influencing me beyond just being plain annoying.

Anyway, not to end on that note, as I've said many times before here I do my darndest to get decent photos of these spectacular epiphyllum blossoms. But they're not easy subjects given their locations around our grounds. Yeah, I could briefly move their pots to more accomodating spots for me but, well, the excuses for not doing that go on and on. Suffice it to say, it's not a good option. So I twist and turn, lean in and out, bend obstructing flora gently with my walking stick, try different exposures, and when all that has failed, I crop and crop. And for all the many pictures I've taken of these sorts of blooms over the past three seasons I have extremely few with which I'm content. Even this one, of which I am fond, has little spots I keep thinking I should "paint out." Maybe one of Santa's elves will do that onerous chore for me as a gift this year. (P.S. I couldn't leave the one that annoyed me the most alone; just cleaned it up. But that just makes the remaining spots jump out more at me. Ack.)

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012


The Sunlight Within is a year and a half old photo and I've let it stand as edited back then. I almost took some new photos yesterday but my knees were aching more than usual. I also recalled all the old photos I keep stumbling across in my computer folders. So didn't struggle with my shopping bag in order to get my camera out of my shoulder bag. Funny how on this very foggy day the first old picture I tripped over was one with a sunny aspect and title. Then again, it's not so suprising to have lots of sunny photos in my files, given I live in California where (according to that famous song) "it don't rain." To some degree that is true. I'll never forget hearing rain on tree leaves for the first time since moving here about a year earlier. I was so surprised and delighted I stood stock still and just listened.

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012


Matins is another year and a half old photo, just re-worked yesterday. I always look forward to getting more pictures of these clusters come spring. The problem I usually have in photographing them is where they're growing. In this photo, they were right up close to a white brick wall. So I inverted the colors to get that black background, then did some more adjusting to get those blossoms into their natural red color again. (They come up aqua on inverting the colors.) And I hope I'm not going to get stuck on color inversion, given my fondess for that light radiating effect it produces.

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Monday, November 26, 2012


The Secret Cauldron is another version of the photo I just posted to my dreams & poetry blog this morning ("Autumn's Cauldron"). The original for these photos was taken a year and a half ago, but just re-worked into these two separate versions yesterday. I'm not totally taken with either version, but think I like this one above a little bit more. What draws me at all to both of them is that they look a little like illustrations for a children's story. Bet some actual if unconscious toddlerhood memory of being read to from a story book is behind that.

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Sunday, November 25, 2012


Taking the Fall is about a year and a half old, and I don't have the orignal, which is rare. It is clearly from a flower photo I'd heavily edited at some time and then forgot about. I just stumbled across it yesterday, at which time I was enticed into changing its orientation, in 90 degree increments.

I rarely fool around with orientation on the page. Though I do it occasionally by only a few degrees to straighten up a tilted picture, I rarely go a full 90 or 180 degrees. This photo just cried out for it for some reason. And I wound up seeing something rather different in each new tilt. Here are the three resultant versions. This one below is Sonogram:


And this one is Rising Above:


This last is Coming Into the Light:


I change my mind each time I view all four photo versions as to whether any is all that good, and even as to which I personally like the most. If hard pressed, I might admit to being mildly partial to "Sonogram" and "Rising Above." As I think the photo may work best with the darker elements less dominant within it.

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