Passing Fair was taken this past April and fixed up today. It just needed a little cropping and brightening, then sharpening and an increase of contrast to bring out those clouds a bit more. This is another of my favorite views around the grounds here. Once I get a better camera (yes, I will, someday) these sorts of distance shots will come out much better. However, I still like this one, and think its title appropriate. That is, in its modern sense of passable, as opposed to its old time, more poetic usage meaning beautiful. Hope I'm not stating the obvious, but I also intend to imply the passing of the clouds and the daylight. Even the calm of the pool will have passed by the morrow due to wind, and to people or the occasional duck swimming.

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The Madding Crowd is a relatively new photo, fairly recently re-worked. It's probably one of the odder titles I've chosen for a picture, but it's partly tongue-in-cheek. I can imagine some of my friends here who dislike how I change the colors on things, finding this photo maddening. I enjoy looking at these orchid "mouths" -- their shapes and how they form a little tower or crowd. However, in their natural white they just don't do much for me. But color inverted and then fussed with a wee bit more, well, then they really pop. Of course, those aforesaid friends would say that pop is annoying. Ah well, that's why there's chocolate and vanilla ice cream! Or as my family used to say, everyone to their own taste said the old woman as she kissed the cow.

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Sticky Wicket was just re-worked today from an older photo. It's probably clear to anyone following these posts that I enjoy taking photos of the stairs on our grounds. Not only are the shapes and shadows intriguing but they present the challenge of lining up various horizontals and verticals within the shot. I.e., which need to be lined up with the photo's edge and which can stay "tilted" (at least by my eyes). In this respect, I have often cropped an original, then found myself having to tilt the photo a bit as the visual balance had changed. This was the case here. After cropping and lining it up, it was changed to this single hue (after first trying sepia tones and many other colors). This hue, by the way, is in the same family as the actual color of the railings (only it's darker "live").

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Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are is an older photo just re-worked this morning. I tried many different crops, inverted then re-inverted the colors, used natural hues and unnatural ones, flipped it upside down, and finally landed in this single-hued, non-color reversed (or rather re-reversed), flipped version. I'd identified this title early on in the editing process, as I felt like I was playing hide-and-seek with the picture I was sensing within the picture. I think I may have finally tagged it.

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Which Way From Here is a relatively old photo that I just re-worked today. As is my usual wont, it's color inverted. I then changed it to a single hue, and fussed with contrast a little bit. This picture is of the second floor walkway from the elevator toward the building I live in. Lots of ways to go from here -- up or down the outside stairs, or through the building door, or even turn around and go back. One could even just stand by that railing on the near right and have a wonderful view of the grounds, especially when the moon is full.

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Drawing From Memory is (surprise, surprise...) a re-working I made yesterday of a very old photo. These shells and such were actually in the large wooden tub in which a very tall fir (pine?) tree grows on our grounds. I have lots of old shots I've taken of the changing array of items that wind up resting there for a while. It can also be interesting to watch the various shadows the light casts on them at different times of the day filtered through the fir branches. I did not, for a change, color invert this one. But only took it into sepia tones, and then adjusted the saturation and constrast a bit. (I did not resist making a color inverted version earlier, though, and changed its colors to blue and white. You can see it here: High Tide.)

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