The original for Petaluma is three years old, but this version (above) was just made this morning. My urge was to call it "Petaluna" (as in petal-moon). But living as I do in California with a city named Petaluma, I figured many folk would think that was either a typo or my ignorance. So I settled on "Petaluma," which is not far off in that it's an old indian name that one web site says means "Valley of the Little Hills."

And here, below, is Sonrisa, another new version of that same old photo. Hope I'm not stating the obvious, but I enjoy the similarity of "Sonrisa" which is spanish for smile, to the english word sunrise. By the way, this version is colored very much like the real flower. I only intensified the colors somewhat to see if I could bring out the seeds at the center, and then liked how much warmer the entire picture appeared. (We've been having some unusually wintery weather -- at least for the five winters I've been living here. No wonder I liked that warming effect.)

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In the Arms of Morpheus (above) is another of my three year old photos just re-worked this morning. I suppose it's not very unusual to simply invert the colors of a picture and then change to a single hue. But I'm well and truly hooked on the effect of color inversion, I'm afraid. (By the way, "back in the day" I was taking photos every day, propelled by my newbie enthusiasm. That's why there are so many more older photos for me to fool around with than newer.)

Below is the original from which "In the Arms of Morpheus" was made, Sun Bathing:

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Aaaah! (above) is a three year old photo, untouched since I edited it back then. (Though I hasten to admit I did try a different crop this morning, but it didn't work.) This picture makes me feel as I did recently when I felt the sun on my back during a brief break in days of rain.

Of course, being the curious person I am, I just had to see what would happen if I fooled around with "Aaaah!" I'm amazed it didn't go totally wonky (get more obvious tiny little boxes) as it was taken with my older even lower pixel capacity camera. Here's the so far untitled version (below):

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Remorse (above) is three years old, and this is the original (admittedly quirky) crop. When I came across it yesterday looking for particular rainy photos I'd taken, I decided to post it today. Then right after posting this morning, I felt urged to make another crop and change the orientation. Guess I wanted to move to a more uplifting view of rainy days. This new version below is Lapping It Up:

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Tempering the Sword is a bit over two years old, as it is (i.e., no recent re-working). It came to mind today because it had rained before I went out yesterday. And I had to pass up taking photos of some gorgeous water gems in this same stand of cannas since I was in a rush to meet someone. I tried sour grapes, telling myself the light wasn't right anyway, but it didn't work. I know from experience how some of the chanciest shots turn out the best. Ah, well, we can't have everything.

Here's another sample (below) of the sort of thing I saw as I hurried by those rain wet cannas late yesterday afternoon. Dream Abacus is also over two years old and not revised since then:

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The original for Recollection is two and a half years old, but this version is only a couple days old. It's a mystery to me how photos of the same size, cropped down to very small pieces thereof, and then color and "texture" manipulated can come out so different. This one wound up looking a little like a water color painting which was the effect I was aiming for, while most others go "wonky" (i.e., get those little digital squares). Maybe it has to do with the particular setting I used on the camera and/or the light in which I took the photo. How will I ever adjust to a new, even more complicated camera (which I will be getting soon enough)? I've never been a techie by any stretch of the imagination. I just like some things that technology can do and will tear my hair out learning how to do them. E.g., most anything at all I know about computers has come through a combination of intuition (sic: fumbling experiments) and banging my head on the monitor. Anyway, at least I'm content with how today's picture turned out.

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