Waxing Moon is one of my oldest pictures. I've hung on to the original because I hoped that someday I'd figure a way to work with that intriguing shadow down the left side of the rose. Then when I came across it this morning I noticed for the first time (duh!) that white sickle shape at it's center. How is it we can look at things (both metaphorically and literally speaking) again and again, and not see or mis-read them? Anyway, I'm still not certain, if I ever am about any photo, that this particular crop works. But I enjoy looking at it with it's vague suggestion of a waxing sickle moon. By the way, for all the years I've been moon-obsessed -- in poems and in following its actual phases closely -- I still sometimes can't recall which side is waxing and which waning. I thought I recalled it being waxing sickle on the right and waning on the left, and google confirmed my memory.

Yin/Yang, below, is another version of the same photo.  Slightly re-cropped, with colors inverted, changed to sepia tones, and then to this green. This is one of those photos that just begs me to keep experimenting with its possibilities. I made two other versions that don't really work, and have no doubt there will be others in the future.

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