SEARCHING FOR HOME

Searching for Home (8-14-13) is a new photo just re-worked from another version I posted to my dreams & poetry blog today. It's not an earth natural disaster picture as I'd said yesterday I might post to complete a series of the four ancient elements (earth, air, fire, and water). But there is, at least to me, a vague connection to earth as I see in it a view of our home planet from space. Of course, the word home can be used to mean many places, can't it? And I see more than Earth in this picture. LOL! A "little voice" just said that I'm always seeing things. Too true. I just hope that what gives me "visions" may also afford a viewer something interesting of their own to contemplate.

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FALL WINDSTORM

Fall Windstorm (4-29-12) is another old picture just edited this morning. I did not set out to do yet another "natural disaster" photo (see previous two days' posts) but as I worked wind began to suggest itself to me. So I went with it, recalling I'd just posted photos for fire and water. Now, let's see if I want to and can come up tomorrow with an earth one to complete the four ancient elements. Though I have noted whenever I work on pix to specifically complete a series I feel OK about one or another of the photos, and others I don't. This one above is a "maybe."

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THE FLOOD NEXT TIME

The Flood Next Time (7-20-10) is a really old photo, just reworked this morning. I think I'm stuck on a natural disaster theme. Yesterday's photo was related to wild fires and this one to floods. Both of which we've been dealing with this summer across our country. As to what I like about "The Flood Next Time"? It's somewhat softened colors; not my usual wont. They were actually much brighter but something said to soften them. I don't recall the series of photoshop filters I applied to get the flood effect, and as usual the color work was done in MS Picture Manager (except for the underlying changes some of the filters create).

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0% CONTAINMENT

0% Containment (6-10-09) is one photo I need to explain a bit. Maybe it's obvious, but once this old photo began to resemble fire I could not get away from the influence of film I've seen of the huge wild fire here near Yosemite National Park. As to the title, the progress in fighting a fire is spoken of in terms of the percentage of containment. Of course, as usual for this introverted person, there's personal resonance as well.

As to the picture style, it somewhat resembles one I posted here a few days ago. I've been drawn to particular filters in photoshop recently. But I won't stay with them overly long; I'll eventually get bored and move on to learning new functions. And at the risk of repeating myself, I always wonder at the issue of personal style. When is it an on-going and interesting exploration, and when does it begin to dull the artist's vision and/or become boring/repetitive for the viewer? I suppose that's an ultimately unanswerable inquiry but it does feed into my quickly feeling the need to try something new.

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REMEMBERING THE WAY

Remembering the Way (8-26-13) was just taken this morning. As usual these days I fussed with it extensively. Given my mood I'm surprised I actually like these warm colors. Maybe it's just all that bright sunlight I sat in for a while writing haiku, before I moved elsewhere and started snapping pix.

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SELF PORTRAIT AT 70; & CAUGHT IN THE MIRROR

Self Portrait at 70 (8-25-13), above, was just taken a couple days ago and edited today. I keep trying to get a better photo of myself for my blogs but haven't succeeded yet. However, it was fun playing around to see what I could do with them in an "artsy" style. And this one actually wound up hitting home in a few ways. But I'll leave it to any viewer to see what it feels like to her or him. Oh, the process I put it through? Photoshop filters Invert and then Craquelure; then MS Picture Manager for further color work. All after a big cropping as it's a much larger photo; my bathroom has three mirrors all looking a different way. (And, yes, I do have to attempt using the time delay function on my camera so I don't have to use a mirror. However, I find the reflections and re-reflections of my mirrors an intriguing challenge when trying to use them as part of a picture's composition.)

Caught in the Mirror, above, is from the same batch as "Self Portrait at 70." It, too, started out as simple and enjoyable experimentation, and wound up reflecting (pun intended) much about my inner life at present. "Caught in the Mirror," too, was heavily edited in both photoshop and MS Picture Manager (including a re-inversion of even odder colors I had originally settled upon).

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