CORE DRIVE, & LAST MOONRISE

Core Drive is a new photo just edited this morning. It's been color inverted and the accented edges filter applied. Then I fooled around a great deal with the color ranges, saturation, and mid-tones; also cropping it more as the relationships of the shapes changed with each edit.

As often happens once I was content enough, I found myself curious as to what it would look like re-color inverted. And here's that version, Last Moonrise, on which I just lightened the mid-tones a bit to make it more moon glow-like.

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THE UNIVERSE NEXT DOOR

The Universe Nextdoor is a little over a year old. I just made this version today, but have several others made earlier. Not much to say about it. It's clearly had several filters applied to it and a lot of color changes made. (I've posted the other artsy versions of this rose here already, including the unfussed with bright yellow one.) I'll just add that often when I look down into an unfurling rose I do feel as if I'm witnessing the swirling of a universe.

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TIDAL POOL #1, & TIDAL POOL #2

Tidal Pool #1, above, is over three years old but has been revised a couple of times recently. It's also one of many different versions I've made of the same photo of a wonderful twisty trunk tree.

And Tidal Pool #2, below, is that same photo revised fairly recently.

I was quite surprised to find that some tidal pools are as darkly colorful as "Tidal Pool #1" when I googled for images to be sure these photos even vaguely resembled them. I can't seem to quite get the color saturation right on these two pix. My cataracts? The still slightly hazy day out there? Both, neither, some artifact of heavy editing (these were both very, very heavily fooled around with)? Quien sabe, but I still like them.

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METEMPSYCHOSIS

Metempsychosis is a four year old photo, just re-worked today. It's also another of those with a title that's "bigger" than it is (this is literally a small photo, cropped way down). But I am feeling reborn, now that the full moon is here and its usual intense negative effects on my mood have begun to wane a bit. In any case, metempsychosis is such a fabulous sounding word. And given the mixed affect (if you will) of this picture, I particularly like that it contains "psychosis" within it. Back to photography: I applied the plastic wrap filter, and changed color ranges and saturation, fudging with mid-tones as well.

BTW, when I go into how I created certain effects it's not so much for any reader of this blog. I assume that most folk know even better than I do how editing programs work (especially Photoshop). I mostly list the process so that I will recall. Even right after finishing a photo on which I've done extensive editing I can sometimes have forgotten the particular combinations of functions I've applied. I'd worry that my almost 70 year old memory is getting even worse. However, I think it has more to do with the state of consciousness I'm in when editing. It's a fantasy state, not pragmatic at all, but about going after/responding to something unknown. How's that for a rationalization of one's aging brain?

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RIOT OF RUNES

Riot of Runes is an over three year old photo, just re-worked this morning. (And, yes, I have several other versions of it. The original is of a white washed wall covered with a leafy green vine.) As with most non-representational pix I produce, it does reflect something of my present mood. That is, feeling overwhelmed by the questions and messages in just about everything.

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CAULDRON OF SUMMER

Cauldron of Summer is a new photo, just edited today. It's also one of those I keep coming back to; this is the second version I have saved (and was the umpteenth attempt at one). I'm ambivalent about the sort of hazy look, yet it seems consistent with steamy summer weather. (Which fortunately we don't get here in Goleta, at least the five summers I've lived here and based on my experience of New York City in summer.)

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