MIDNIGHT SUN

The original for Midnight Sun (7-17-10 10016ev2) is going on four years old. I've wrestled other versions from it over the years, but just made this one today. I haven't noticed a sunflower like this on our grounds in a couple of years. But maybe I just wasn't focusing on this particular corner of our grounds where they were growing when I got the source shot for "Midnight Sun." Our Memorial Rose Garden is catty-corner across a sidewalk from that area and I often get all caught up snapping pix of the roses. (That amazingly still to this former New Yorker bloom just about year round, in lesser or greater numbers.)

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LEAP OF IMAGINATION

The original for Leap of Imagination is a few years old, and has been worked on in various versions for some time now. I even revised this one just now. I liked it but it still didn't quite embody the title that kept whispering itself to me. So I flipped the pic 90 degrees and ah! now I really see some leaping going on.

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THE GLORY TREE

The original for The Glory Tree (5-7-12 11877ev2) is old (of course :-D) and fudged with months ago. Color inversion so that the seeded center of a flower "glows" is one of my long time favorite Photoshop functions. And these colors are favorites, as well. They showed up on inverting the original's colors. All I did then was brighten them a bit. Then I cropped the photo so that the "tree" was much more the focus than the petals.

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IN THE LIGHT OF MEMORY

In the Light of Memory (6-28-09 2985v2) is another very old photo. I've had this version hanging around for some time and all I did this morning was increase the contrast a little bit. I wanted for some obscure reason to post a "realistic" photo today, though I had quite a time finding one I could live with sharing. Of course, these colors aren't "realistic" but the scene is clearly so, and I got tired of searching through folder after folder and my stacks of little notes about pix I haven't used yet. As it happens this pic suits my mood just fine today, so here it is.

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HELICAL

Helical (11-19-09 8258e) is from one of those really old folders of endlessly engaging pix. Many times I'm surprised at how obvious the "fix" was for some problem I saw that kept the photo languishing, if you will, for years. I hope that's a sign of developing skills. But I'll take it even if it's just a matter of having come to it with fresh eyes. (All this one really needed was to be tilted, re-cropped, and color saturated.)

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GETTING ANTSY; & WINTER SURF

Other than it's bright colors, I don't know what tickles me so much about Getting Antsy (11-19-09 8256ev9) above, but it does tickle me. I've often thought (and found some evidence for it over the years) that this particular reaction I have is based in a long-forgotten childhood image-memory.

And here's another version of that same photo, Winter Surf that doesn't tickle me the way "Getting Antsy" does, but that I do feel good about:

By the way, the original for both of these is from one of my oldest folders of pix. But I just yesterday produced these versions.

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