A MOMENT IN THE SUN

A Moment in the Sun is another new photo, worked on this morning. Not sure I like all of this picture's technical aspects, but it does tug at my feelings.

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ANGELS OF THE STORM, FELINE DREAM, & ONE SHEET TO THE WIND

Angels of the Storm, above, is a new photo just edited this morning. Many folk find it strange when they see me taking pix of the remnants of blossoms, but I find their shapes suggestive.

Feline Dream, below, is one small area of the above picture that grabbed my attention all by itself. But not until I rotated it was I content with it.

And just for comparison, One Sheet to the Wind, below, is the original from which I edited "Feline Dream":

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SUNSPOT, & BAROQUE TRUMPETERS

Sunspot, above, is a brand new photo, just edited last night. We don't have much sun here right now (July-no-sky, as I've heard it called, caused by a "marine layer"), but it will burn off and be a lovely 4th of July afternoon.

Baroque Trumpeters, below, is from the same batch as "Sunspot." I always enjoy these little horn-shaped blossoms (agapanthus, I believe they're called). And when I stumbled on the color for this picture it immediately put me in mind of baroque trumpet music. That bright, upbeat classical music I had a tape of decades ago. Listening to it as I word processed huge legal documents on my job was a great delight. (Back then was the heyday of word processing pools in legal firms and we were permitted to wear headphones as we worked.)

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A KISS FOR THE SUN

A Kiss for the Sun is almost three years old, just cropped and slightly color saturated this morning. As I started to work on the crop I remembered why I'd left this picture in my folder untouched for so long. I'd have to do a lot of "painting out" of tiny bits of distracting background and that sort of work is my least favorite. But it's such a sweet little rose with its soft pucker. And I thought a straightforward shot might be a good palette cleanser given the heavily edited pix I've been posting recently. So I bit the bullet and did the painting out by mouse. (Now that I see it against a dark background, I note that it could probably use some more painting out in the upper left. I had tried a closer crop at one point that eliminated that leaf. But the change in relative scale changes that sense of the rose's smallness. Maybe some other day I'll do the extra cleaning up of that leaf on this crop.)

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MAKING WAY FOR THE DAY

Making Way for the Day is another almost three year old photo, but just re-worked this morning. I have three other fairly recent versions of it that just don't quite pass muster for posting. This one does. Probably because I'm such a sucker for these colors. Which were a surprise as I fooled around trying to make a version of this pic on which I could finally settle.

I had one devil of a time making this post today. For a very long time now I've not been titling these posts. It came about as the result of a blogger glitch while I still had my old computer (the title function did not work, along with some other issues for which I developed work arounds). Then I decided I liked the posts untitled, as the photo presents first, by itself. Now, suddenly, after months with my new computer and no titles on my posts, blogger won't let me make a post without a title. Ack. And their little error message box didn't even indicate what was wrong, just that something was wrong. I had to use the old "hit my head on the monitor" method to figure it out. Ack again. I've had many of these annoying computer function issues since switching to my new computer, and not just with blogger. Computers. Can't live with 'em and can't live without 'em.

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Things Fall Apart, above, is from an almost three year old photo, just worked on this morning along with the other two below. Of the three, I enjoy this one above the most. I've always liked a sort of orange color with bright pink (decades back, a friend found that color scheme in my bathroom a little nauseating :-D). It's "movement" is also more dynamic.

This next below is A Place for Everything:

And this last version below is actually the first I made those years back, with a slight cropping this morning, called Music of the Night:

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