THEY ONLY SHINE AT NIGHT

They Only Shine At Night (4-10-12) is an old photo just played around with this morning. Not much to say. I applied several photoshop filters (including one I'd not found a way to work with yet, Solarize) and did further color work in MS Picture Manager. To some folk it might seem unnecessary to do anything to a photo of these blooms. And in one way I agree, amaryllis like these are very lovely, as is. However, there's other levels (at least for me) to my experience of things such as beauty. Other bells get rung, at a deep level that egg me on to try to express them. Therefore, an attempt such as "They Only Shine At Night." By the way, as I've probably said here before I don't have a mental image before I start editing of what I want a picture to look like. I just follow whatever the shapes, colors, movement in a photo suggest as I go along. The photo evolves on my computer screen and I "recognize" it once it's fully here. LOL, if I'm lucky. Some days the picture doesn't seem to make it through from wherever it lives. And this one only barely made I through; I'm still not sure how I feel about it.

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