Midnight Launch is an old photo just revised this morning. Having one of those days in which nothing I'm doing seems to work but this one comes closest. The problem with it? It's like too many I've done recently, though I've posted only a few of them here or on my other blog. As I've been complaining about on my dreams & poetry blog, I feel stuck in a rut. Wouldn't it be nice if that rut were actually one of viewing everything I do in a negative light? Unfortunately, I don't think that's true. Ah well, hopefully I'll clamber out of this rut eventually, whatever it is.

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Reaching for the Stars, above, is a very new photo, just edited this morning and clearly heavily photoshopped. I got fascinated by the little "sucker" edges on the succulent and kept trying to bring them out, more and more. Until it wound up vaguely resembling a painting done in a daubing style.

But first it wound up looking like a Tapestry:

However, I'm not all that jazzed about either of these versions. Though "Reaching for the Stars" almost meets up with the fantasy I was reaching for.

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Golden Globe, above, is quite new and just edited this morning, along with the below version. I recently posted a different photo of this same agapanthus bloom but like this one more (if not a whole lot more). As I said under that earlier photo of this same blossom, it bloomed here last year for the first time. The woman caring for this garden last year said it must have been a gift from a bird (:-D), as none had been planted.

Golden Glen, below, is the same photo, in a larger crop. I do seem to be attached to the yellower end of the spectrum today. Well, at least that's quite a change from my usual wont. Oh, by the way, the actual color of the agapanthus is a light sort of periwinkle blue.

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Faces in the Wind is a new photo. Don't really have much to say about it except that it almost captures the feeling of an autumn scene I have stored in my imagination (or maybe it's an ancient memory?) that keeps urging me to bring it out. Every once in a while I'll see someone else's photo or painting (or even poem) and almost leap for joy because, oh my, there it almost is, that wabi-sabi autumn scene that haunts me. (I came across the concept of wabi-sabi when studying haiku. It's a Japanese world view or aesthetic that describes beauty as imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.)

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Up Periscope is from that batch of pix I started posting from day before yesterday. I'd been misled (by gossip, imagine that!) to think this one was also related to cell phone tower work. But now I hear (a rumor taken with a grain of salt) that this one is for working on the water lines. I think this rumor may be true, though, as there has been intermittent loss of running water in this particular building where I live while it's been up. I had some water loss mid-day yesterday, so they may still be working from this one.

This next below, Top Heavy, is of the other, the cell phone tower scaffolding. They were still working on it as of late yesterday. The ground floor level is blocked with tapes and benches so no that one can walk beneath that area. Yesterday afternoon, I saw them hauling a huge flat rectangular greyish piece up the wall that's below and to the left.

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Fairie Lantern is very new. This particular "stem" of little orchids always grows in this hook shape. I've noticed other sorts of anomalies in certain rose centers that show up year after year. Like very welcome, quirky old friends. (Right now I'm having a hard time getting into the soft mood of this photo. After a bunch of automatic MS system updates recently, I find my three major photo editing programs not working and playing well together. I'm getting "locked file" messages and "You need Administrative permission to ..." errors. Ack. Never had any of that nonsense before. And I'm having to do lots of recopying of pix under new names to get around it. Another example of "Why did they fix it when it wasn't broken?" Once I'm more clear headed I'll try to find out what the problem is that got introduced by the updates. Sheesh.)

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Super Moon Rising is a very new photo. Of course, that's not really the moon but the result of a photoshop filter, applied twice to emphasize that central circle it creates. The impetus behind this shot wasn't the full moon (that Super Moon actually comes in tonight and I may go out to try and catch some pix of it). I was trying to get some interesting pictures of that scaffolding way up at the top right. I've heard a rumor that a cell phone tower is being built there. There's another scaffold on another of our buildings, too. I've gotten all sorts of photos of each and will probably be posting what I've done with them in the future. All those great lines and angles make for some interesting effects when various filters get applied.

Just for the fun of it, here's one straightforward shot, Sneak Peek, looking up at this same scaffolding from a very different spot below it:

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