I almost posted this rose picture yesterday as a response to the horrific tragedy in the elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. But ultimately I didn't have the heart to do any posting at all yesterday. So I offer it up to today with deep sympathy for all effected by the shootings.

This photo,Omphalos, is a re-coloring of a new one I posted here a couple months ago. The effect is from the "sepia" function in one of my several small editing programs. Then I saturated the colors, and darkened them a wee bit to bring out the rose's central "glow."

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Fly Away Home (above) is another spanking new photo, from that full folder I posted from yesterday.

And here's one just taken yesterday. I may have to hobble slowly around to try to get the shots I'm drawn to try, but I sure am having fun. A little holiday joy. This one below is called Dripping Wet:

None of yesterday's other pictures came out in any viable way. It was twilight and I took the chance that there was just enough light to not use the "night" setting on my camera. I can't hold the camera steady enough, long enough, for "night" setting, and don't have and probably wouldn't use any sort of tripod. Well, the twilight wasn't enough, that combined with the rainy skies. But it was lovely standing there, minutely examining the various sections of the view and trying to frame shots. I'm content to have this one photo yield a scene reminiscent of that rainy evening view. I'd like to think it looks rather more like a watercolor painting, than an out of focus photo, but I haven't succeeded in creating that effect.

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Yawn! (above) is brand new, from a folder filled with new pictures. Finally felt not only moved to but capable of taking some pix. Most have wound up in the above "artsy" style, and some even more so.

Here's Going for a Spin from that batch:

And last for today is Leaf Prints:

I could readily blame my increasing penchant for heavily editing photos on my camera's decreasing ability. (As I've said here endlessly before, it's a focus problem. I don't think it likes knocking around in my purse no matter how carefully I have it packed.) But to be honest, I'm wanting more and more just to experiment, to follow my imagination's wandering eye.

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Eeny Meeny Miny Moe is just as I cropped it years ago, which was long before I began really fussing with colors and focus and such. (It was taken with my old loaner, even lower pixel count camera, too.) I so enjoy watching these blossoms grow each spring from one tight spear shadped bud into a full glorious globe of little flowers. On our grounds they tend to pop up in new places. We had a couple last spring for the first time in our "promenade" garden. This old photo is of one growing by itself just fine down beneath a stand of cannas. You can see the canna leaves behind it.

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The Vase is one of my oldest photos, just re-worked this morning, totally turning it on it's head. Literally. Then I inverted the colors, and took them back very close to their original fucshia, and fussed endlessly with the focus to get it more "painting-like" as it was approaching wonky. It's a low pixel count picture to begin with, then I cropped it ... wonk is inevitable. And yet, and yet, it appeals to me. Maybe more as an idea for a painting? The urge to paint still surfaces regularly. As does the itch to sketch. Who knows? In any event, here's a vase on the edge of wonk. LOL, just like me.

OK, here's another even less "successful" version (original orientation, larger crop, colors inverted and changed) of the same photo, Nodding Out:

Must be my (astrological) Moon in Taurus (The Bull) that makes me so stubborn. I just hate to give up on something I feel tugging at me from a picture. Even when it's clear (pun intended) that the focus/pixel count is just not there, no matter how I try to disguise it.

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It's A Girl! has appeared on both this and my dreams/poetry blog, in two other versions. It's a very new photo and I am really drawn to its shapes and shadings. This is the lightest, both in color and mood, of the three edits I've done of it so far. This is also pretty much it's true colors, just saturated and sharpened a bit. The original photo though takes in the full rose and some background greenery. But all three versions so far have been cropped way down to this intriguing rose center, which is pretty much what I figured I'd wind up doing as I took the picture.

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