OK, now for something totally silly, Invasion of the Pod People. This is a very old photo and even in its unfussed with original form it makes me smile. Even as these seeds did when I first spotted them years back. I couldn't and can't help but see those sketches of aliens said to sometimes abduct humans. Then when I inverted the colors on this one today just to see what would happen it looked even more like a sketch, so I fooled some more with the colors. And here you have it, proof positive that even if I wasn't ever abducted by space aliens I'm certainly waaaaay spacey.

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The Pythoness is an old photo (re-worked today) of that neighboring tree I mentioned in yesterday's post. What else can I say but reiterate my deep fondness for standing people, and especially this tree. I would walk around it, trying to "hear" what it was saying, as if it were some ancient oracle whose language I do not speak. (Colors inverted and changed, with some fussing using the despeckle function.)

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Spell Weaver is another of my oldest photos, just re-worked this morning. This tree and one of its neighbors are two of my favorite trees. (And that's saying a lot as "standing people" are among my most favorite of living things.) It was fun to try to bring out in this photo what I feel when in the presence of many trees. You can see the new version made today of an old picture of the other tree here. Yes, I'm hoping spring is weaving a very positive spell for us all.

The original for "Spell Weaver" was re-cropped and color inverted. The colors were then changed and a lot of fussing done using the "despeckle" function.

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Dusk is (blush) the tenth version of this old photo I've made to date. (Two were posted here a couple of days ago.) To stay with that title's image, maybe the sun has now set on this photo. And I'll move on to some of the new photos I took about a week ago. I seem to be doing the same thing with dream poems -- i.e., working a lot on old ones and being even less content than usual with either old or new. Well, spring is nearly here. Maybe it will give me a creative kick in the butt or at least a gentle nudge.

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As Above, So Below was posted recently to my dreams & poetry blog, and I think it makes a nice change of pace for this blog today. I was initially looking at rainy day photos I have since it's threatening to rain today (and we need it). But this picture drew me. Possibly because I'm feeling rather sentimental. I miss being able to walk to this pizza place. And not even so much for the pizza, as for walking in the gorgeous weather taking pictures along the way. As to this old photo itself, all that was done on posting to my other blog was a re-cropping and slight sharpening.

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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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Just Another Pretty Face is just another old photo, re-worked this morning. The excitement I was feeling over having taken new pix has waned. I think it's a combination of my beat up, old, not-very-high-end-to-begin-with camera's increasing disabilities, and my mood. But on looking through that folder of photos I took a few days ago, all have major problems. On top of that none really draw me to creatively crop or work around those problems. Ah well, the mood will pass and I will eventually get a new camera. Maybe in time to capture some of the bodacious blossoms and such that spring brings.

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