CHARYBDIS

Charybdis (9-7-13) is a brand new photo, just edited this morning. Gotta start larnin' myself some new functions in photoshop! I keep going back to the same ones, albeit re-combining them in different ways and, say, changing the percentage of distortion. But that part of the human brain (I guess I still qualify as both being and having) that craves novelty is itching to see different sorts of things happening. Then the other part that's always feeling rushed says, look into new functions tomorrow. And tomorrow just hasn't come yet. Somehow, it's always today. I bet that old sea monster/whirlpool Charybdis had the same issue. Nothing like the familiar snack that presents itself immediately in front of one, no matter how hungry one might be for something new.

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HEAT WAVE

Heat Wave (9-5-13) was just taken yesterday and worked on this morning. When I first thought I'd work on one of the several architectural pix I have in this folder I had not thought to go all wonky with it. But as usual something grabbed my eye and off I went, haring after, well, something. And this is what resulted. At least it hews to the general consensus around here of the weather the past couple of days. I say "general consensus" because I've not been all that uncomfortable. I hasten to add I'm also not anywhere near as active as many folk. But will also say that I recall New York city in summer and this isn't any NYC, not by any stretch of the imagination. Even when I'm feeling rather sticky in the late evening as the heat rises from the buildings and earth. No way.

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DANCE OF SALOME

Dance of Salome (9-5-13) is brand new, just taken and worked on this morning. Can't say I'm over the moon about it, or even tickled pink (wonder what it indicates when one thinks in cliché expressions) but I do like those curving lines and that quirky blossom. And the color combinations and contrasts. However, I've been relying on that Glowing Edges filter a lot. (Its effect often puts me in mind of string art.) Ah well, this mood too shall pass and maybe then I'll take and/or edit some pix I can feel better about posting.

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THE GATE ONTO NOWHERE (two versions)

The Gate Onto Nowhere (B.I. folder) is an extremely old photo of mine, taken back in 1986 on my first trip to the beautiful small Block Island off the tip of New York's Long Island. I took maybe a half dozen photos and they came out so poorly I did not take any on subsequent trips to the island, or anywhere else. (BTW, they weren't digital and I don't think I have the prints anymore, just the even poorer scans I did of them into my computer.) On subsequent trips to the island I settled for sketching in pen and ink; something I'd done since childhood. It wasn't until I moved here to California in 2008 that I took any more pictures at all.

I have to admit to yearning for the comfortable solitude I enjoyed hiking around that treasure of an island. Yes, I could hike in those days. Sigh. Anyway, as I re-worked this photo I remembered I'd always thought of it as of "the gate onto nowhere." And I recall that on subsequent trips, the field was never anything but wild and grown over. There was also never a gate actually connecting those stone walls. Its wildness might not have been all that notable, except it was on a main roadway, with carefully cared for fields and houses all around and across the way. I enjoyed its understated impudence.

Here's a second version, in which the wall and gateless gate are clearer though I'm not happy with that sky, it glares a bit:

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STIRRING UP TROUBLE

Stirring Up Trouble (1-17-10) is a very old photo, just re-worked today. What can I say? Usual combo of photoshop and MS Picture Manager editing. Add to that an unpredictable mood and, well, trouble brews. I also can't resist saying that these colors along with the shapes and contrasts, put me in mind of my hippie years. The real hippie years, back decades ago. Hm, I could see this on a black light poster, actually. :-)

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WALTZ OF AIR AND EARTH, & SETTING SUN

Waltz of Air and Earth (8-1-09), above, is an old photo just messed around with today. Clearly it's been heavily photoshopped, with further color work in MS Picture Manager. It's actually a simple beach scene but once I began applying filters it took off to other realms. (Here's the picture I made it from, also fooled around with.)

And here's a second version below also made this morning. (Many times when I slide a photo along a continuous spectrum of hues and saturation I find several I really like and stop at to save before moving on.) It's called Setting Sun. The coral/pink color of sunsets around here can take my breath away. And when I stumbled on the colors in this pic it brought those to mind:

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THEY ONLY SHINE AT NIGHT

They Only Shine At Night (4-10-12) is an old photo just played around with this morning. Not much to say. I applied several photoshop filters (including one I'd not found a way to work with yet, Solarize) and did further color work in MS Picture Manager. To some folk it might seem unnecessary to do anything to a photo of these blooms. And in one way I agree, amaryllis like these are very lovely, as is. However, there's other levels (at least for me) to my experience of things such as beauty. Other bells get rung, at a deep level that egg me on to try to express them. Therefore, an attempt such as "They Only Shine At Night." By the way, as I've probably said here before I don't have a mental image before I start editing of what I want a picture to look like. I just follow whatever the shapes, colors, movement in a photo suggest as I go along. The photo evolves on my computer screen and I "recognize" it once it's fully here. LOL, if I'm lucky. Some days the picture doesn't seem to make it through from wherever it lives. And this one only barely made I through; I'm still not sure how I feel about it.

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