THE PIANIST

The Pianist is an almost three year old photo, just re-worked this morning. I'm really enjoying experimenting with some of the new functions I've found in photoshop. Especially having just filled my poor brain with the pictures in a book of "modern" art paintings.

One further comment: whenever I find these overly bright and sometimes almost neon colors showing up on the screen, my over-riding tendency is to soften them. My thinking being that they are so obviously the result of computer manipulation. Well! It just hit me today that, hey, the computer is the tool I'm using. Why feel so apologetic? Why not go with that color intensity, stop trying to make the results look like something else, and see where they lead, in and of themselves? So "The Pianist" is my first deliberate leaving alone of colors I would have usually changed or at least softened. I think they could grow on me.

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PORTRAIT

Portrait was just edited this morning from an almost three year old photo. It was inspired by a gorgeous glossy book of color pictures of paintings I was looking at yesterday. All "modern" art, much of it totally non-representational and some of it so minimal as to leave me, well, uninterested. However, except for those few minimalist paintings (I've tried, I really have tried to appreciate minimalist art, I just can't) the book is a great treat. It now has yellow sticky notes flapping off its edges so I can readily find those I was most moved and intrigued by. What surprised me was how often I saw effects in those paintings that I have chased after in my photos, though often taken much further especially with human figures. Therefore, this photo today. By the way, in its original form this is of a friend.

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PURIFYING THE GOLD

Purifying the Gold is a brand new photo that I just edited this morning. It's clearly another one of those that I've applied layers of filters to, and then manipulated the color and mid-tones. Nothing to write home about, however, there is something I like about that suggestion of gold melting in fire.

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[aka: Patricia Kelly] **** If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or photos, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”) ****

THE MOUNTAINS OF TOMORROW

The Mountains of Tomorrow is brand new, just loaded to my computer yesterday. I can't begin to recall exactly what I dragged this photo through before landing it as is. I can say it's a very small portion of the original that I turned on its head after applying several filters and doing a lot of color and mid-tone manipulation.

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‘til next take, may you enjoy life in the ever changing light,

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