Summer Solstice is a brand new version of a picture from that over three year old folder that I've apparently become stuck in. It is probably from one of those hikes on which I took well over 100 pix because the folder still had close to 70 in it before all this recent re-working. Which gives me more wiggle room than is good for me or anyone viewing this blog. All kidding aside, I think it's sheer nostalgia that's got me hooked. Working in this old folder also gets me off the grounds of the retirement community I live in, if only in memory.

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Hibiscus, as a friend recently commented, would make a nice design for wrapping paper. I agree. Nothing special, just nice. And that comment reminds me of something that's been sneaking back in to my approach to any of my creative efforts, what another long ago friend used to call the "masterpiece complex." I.e., that everything one does must be up there with the classics or be useless. I say "Pah!" to that old burr in my side. I really know my limits (though that doesn't keep me from trying to stretch them) but primarily and ultimately what matters most to me is the process. This inner space in which I attempt to bring something out that's been calling to me. So I'll keep reminding myself to leave masterworks to the masters, and follow my own star, however bland or oddly forged the results may seem. Checking in with the world and it's aesthetics along the way, but not letting them run the show.

Hibiscus, Too is the above photo color inverted, then re-colored. I'm rarely able to get a green that isn't totally neon, so was happy when I got to this:

And Woodcut was fun for the same reason as "Hibiscus, Too," I can rarely get nice brown shades. Though overall I like this version of the three the least, I do think the little details show up best here:

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One Look Back is from that same over three year old batch of photos I've been posting from recently. I just made this version, and the other two below, this morning. The shot is of a favorite corner in Isla Vista (USCB's "college town," if you will) that I used to be able to walk to from where I live. Right now students are moving out after graduation, so it will very soon have the same sense of emptiness this photo has.

Drawing From Memory is the second version:

And Neighborhood Watch is the third and last version -- at least for now, this is one of those pix that keeps tugging me back to it:

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The Path Home is another over three year old photo, just revised this morning. (I've stumbled on a folder of really old pix that all seem to be speaking to me right now.) This was not extensively photoshopped. In fact all I did to it in Photoshop was to invert the colors. I turned the photo on its head and changed the colors, along with their saturation and such, using MSPictureManager.

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The Four Seasons is made of four new versions of an over three year old photo. I was (again) trying out the endless functions in Photoshop Elements (plus MSPictureManager for color work). Of the four I like spring and winter best (upper left and lower right respectively). I may some day re-work summer and fall. Their individual titles are (left to right) "Spring Emergent," "Medusa's Mirror," "The Gordian Knot," and "Winter Reflections."

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[Untitled 1] above, is very recent, just re-worked a day or two ago. I was again trying to break out of my tendency towards certain color choices. Not sure how I feel about these colors, but they aren't my usual combinations. And I do sort of like the spare content, especially given how fussy some of my newest pix are since I've been learning Photoshop. I'll post some more of those rather "psychedlic" photoshopped ones another day. I'm not in the mood for them right now. June Gloom (the hazy skies we have here this time of year) has me, both literally and metaphorically speaking.

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Summer Arbor, above, is a new photo just worked on yesterday along with the other three versions posted below. Learning Photoshop Elements is taking me on a time trip back to my hippie years. Call me dated, but I'm having a great time. The pix I will probably post tomorrow are even more reminiscent of those years. (By the way the effects in these photos are not from a single filter or one color change. I layer both filters and color changes. And I'm still using MSPictureManager for color changes and intensities. There's also color inversion, re-inversion, and re-re-inversion involved in some cases.)

This next one below is The Kraken Wakes:

And this one below is Quantum Rose:

Below is the last for today, Brass Rose:

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