DIVING INTO AUTUMN

Diving Into Autumn is a few months old, just fiddled with yesterday afternoon. Lots of fiddling with degrees and angles and lengths of distortions in photoshop, then I totally indulged myself with these colors. The colors (not the shapes) put me in mind of that toddler toy of rubber rings in just these sorts of vivid colors. Each ring was slightly smaller and the object was to put them over a post in their proper order (getting smaller to the top). I can clearly recall, though, making my own arrangements of the sizes to see how the colors would then look. I have no memory of being corrected by adults or older kids, but I can just imagine that I was (based on what has happened all my life when I experiment). It's tough being a wannabe artist! But at least here I can let my imagination fly.

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LABYRINTH

Labyrinth (4-24-13) is a few months old, and just edited this morning. (It's actually the sixth version I've made from the same original picture.) I didn't do any distorting with photoshop filters. All its shapes and proportions are in the original rose center photo, nor did I color invert it. Though I clearly applied a few other sorts of filters to get the outlines and little bits of texture, and fussed with the colors. I actually like these colors, as opposed to my usual blue/purple leaning. Guess I'm in an autumn state of mind. Also, this is another of those pix that looks better bigger (especially the little details), so just click on it and in most browsers you'll get a larger version.

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BEARDING THE LION

Bearding the Lion (4-24-13) is a few months old, just worked on yesterday. Although I like the shapes I managed to finagle out of it with photoshop, I think it's the color combinations that please me most. Especially once I was able to get that background to drop out into that total black without losing the ripples and shades in the colors. I hope some day I'm able to apply this "let's try this and see what happens ..." approach to more areas in my life. Of course with these photos I always have the original to revert to (unless I've made the rare blunder) but that's not always so in, say, relationships. That last comment is revealing given the title of this photo. There are risks and then there are risks.

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LAMENTATION, & UNDER SHELTER OF NIGHT

Lamentation (9-15-13) above, was just taken and edited a couple of days ago on one of my morning walks around the grounds. I took a slew of shots of these huge leaves (don't know what the plant is called) in rather challenging extremely mixed light, just because I love their glossy shapes. Of course, none really came out of the entire plant, but certain sections were somewhat redeemable with lots of fun fussing.

Here's another reworked photo of that same plant, Under Shelter of Night (9-15-13):

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DANCE OF THE FAE

Dance of the Fae (8-20-09) is from a very old photo, revised over the past two days. It's one of several versions but the only one that I feel somewhat settled on. I've clearly used many photoshop filters, and fooled around a lot with the colors (the original's of a pale green plant). Seeing dancing fairies in it is probably influenced by the work I've been doing with the newest Tarot deck in my collection, "The Victorian Fairy Tarot."

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LAST DANCE OF SUMMER

Last Dance of Summer is a few months old, just re-worked this morning. It's one of those problem photos with all sorts of distracting background mess. But the shapes those petals and seed center make always drew me. So I color inverted it, accented its edges, and greatly lightened the mid-tones (which is how I got that messy background to drop out). Then clearly I did some further fussing with the colors. I'd never have thought I'd develop a satisfactory version of this picture today, given how long I sat at this computer, scrapping versions of different photos that just weren't going anyplace good at all. Guess sometimes it really does pay not to give up.

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REST STOP, & HEART HAUNTING

Rest stop (9-15-13) above, was just taken and worked on this morning. For some reason I find the curves of these plastic chairs intriguing. And there are plenty of them around the retirement community I live in, such as this one awaiting a visit from someone on the way to or from the elevator (which is just to the back of the viewer in this shot).

And Heart Haunting (9-15-13) below, is in the same batch as the above photo. It's clearly more my leaning these days. I.e., to use photos as templates for the imaginings they trigger.

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