"Serpent's Nest", above, is only a few days old. (Those buds have already opened and wilted -- I have some pix of them but haven't loaded them yet to my computer.) I didn't notice that tiny spider on the large upper middle left bud until I cropped this photo. In addition to the shapes on the buds, I love the patterns the surrounding needles make.

The next version, below, is "Gambling on Green." I put it through many different colors and was most drawn to this:

And the last version below, "Where's Waldo?" was just for the fun of it, a total experimental spree. I put it through filter after filter in Photoshop Elements and color after color to finally land on this:

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The above photo is called Sketch for Colored Pencils and is very new. It's clearly been heavily photoshopped (Photoshop Elements). I put it through several filters, inverted and re-inverted the colors, and then fooled around further with the colors in MSPicture Manager. That sort of crackling effect, believe it or not, comes from having lightened it a wee bit in MSPicture Manger, then darkened only the mid tones. Not from a Photoshop filter. (That's a nice little trick I've found when those little details get lost under filters.)

And, as is my frequent wont, here's a second version of the same photo, Drawing From the Night. Worked on pretty much the same way as "Sketch for Colored Pencils" but not color inverted that second time:

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Night Offering was taken in November of 2009, one of my earlier efforts. I've always liked it but it's background was quite problematic. I finally took the time today to clean up the messy background in the MSPaint program. (I gather there may be a way to drop out the background entriely using Photoshop Elements. But I'm not up to trying to figure that out today.) As to the title, I'm not even sure it was a night shot. It was taken with the first camera I worked with -- an old, but rather forgiving Gateway -- that often gave some intriguing and unexpected results.

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Stealing the Spotlight is a recent photo, revised a couple weeks ago. Not much else to say about it. Except that it's the sort of shot I keep trying to take. It's difficult to capture what is seen live with light coming through a leaf changing it's color dramatically, and not have the resultant photo seem totally photoshopped. This one was not even worked on in photoshop at all. And all I did to the color (in MSPictureManager) was to saturate it slightly to try to bring it up to my memory of the actual leaf's color. Yet it still has an artificiality that the live leaf did not. Ah well, challenges hopefully advance one's eye and tech skill, and at the very least are fun.

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The four image (not photo) series below is called "HORSES OF THE ANCIENT ELEMENTS." Below each image is its particular name. I did not set out with a series in mind. It just grew out of fooling around with an old, very simple white page/black pen sketch of mine of only a horse head, no other details. I wanted to do some trial learning with my new Photoshop Elements program and the initial result was the second horse below ("Sea Diver"). Then I wanted to see what a really warm color in a different version would look like and I was off and running (if you'll pardon the pun). By the way, I wanted to post these as one large "tile" -- i.e., a square within which each quarter was filled by a different horse. But just how I might do that in this blogger program totally eluded me and I don't have the time this morning to keep trying to figure it out. Just dealing with the various automatic insertions and deletions of html coding when working with images in blogger is nearly worth my sanity on some mornings.

"SUN CATCHER"



"SEA DIVER"



"NEW WIND"



"SAFE HAVEN"

Okey dokey, just could not let it go without trying all four as a "tile." So I went to MS Paint program and pasted one up. Here 'tis:

P.S. Just in case, FYI the four ancient elements are fire, water, air, and earth.

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Mayan Mashup is yet another version of the photo I posted here yesterday, as are the other two below. This is one of those rare results that when it showed up on my screen delighted me. I went through color inverting and re-inverting, rotating, trying many filters and colors, and ultimately applied two filters one over the other (which is in addition to the filter used in the version I started from). It's quite literally a mashup. Not that the other two below aren't. They each went through a lengthy process to end up where they are.

This version below is Summer of the Treehouse:

And this last one is The Centre Cannot Hold:

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