CELEBRATING THE RAIN; & ANGLING

Oh, yes, Celebrating the Rain (3-1-14 002v3) indeed!! And may we have more of it over the next month. If we do, we here in central and south California just might catch up after these years leading to a drought emergency. (I do feel concern over the areas where mudslides occur, but if our news reports are any reflection of reality folk have been preparing for such eventualities.) Residents who saw me snapping pix late yesterday and earlier today made a bit of lighthearted fun of me. Hey, what's the harm in taking pix that have a high probability of not coming out well? I'm having a great time looking at the shapes and highlights ... and watching the rain!! ... and listening to it make those little smacking sounds ... and smelling the rain-fresh air. And this pic isn't too terrible, after all. Certainly no worse than most of my clear weather efforts.

Here's another from today, Angling (3-1-14 021v2). That chair wasn't blown that way by the wind. Residents often tilt chairs like that when rain is expected to keep them as dry as possible. (Though I was tempted to call this photo "Blown Away" anyway since it certainly does look as if that chair were storm-tossed.)

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WARMING TO THE MOMENT

Very little (for a change :-D) was done to the old original of this photo to produce Warming to the Moment (4-24-13 12597e) today. It was cropped, the color ever so slightly softened, and some distracting little corner spots painted out. Of course I have many other versions in various colors, orientations, and crops. It's one of those rose centers to which I keep coming back. However, this time I wanted to leave it as close to "natural" as possible as I've always loved its color. (Despite my earlier and probably on-going fooling with it.)

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STANDING TALL

I've had this photo hanging around for years. There's always been something I liked about it, even if its composition is a bit messy and there was distracting "schmutz" in the background that needed to be painted out. So there it sat until this morning. And as I started painting out the messy spots, the title popped up, Standing Tall (9-18-10 10002e). These little orchids grow in this same spot every year. They're always difficult to get good shots of (in the shade of a tree with lots of other flora around in various states of array and disarray). Not to mention that I can't clamber in close to shoot them from behind. But I try every season. Maybe that's why I like this one. It comes close to being a good "portrait" of a stem of these sweet little orchids. Well, then there's all those curved lines, all "standing tall." I like, those, too.

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TAKING THE STAIRS

The original for Taking the Stairs (9-21-10 10033v3) is years old but just re-worked today. It's the sort of shot I used to take many more of. I'm still intrigued by the contrast and shadows between growing things and architecture. And often stop to stare at them on the many outside staircases we have on the grounds of the retirement community I live in. I just haven't pulled out my camera in a long time to snap a pic of them. I'm usually hobbling my way home with a backpack full of shopping when the shadows are the most interesting (late afternoon) and just not up to it. Mostly because I know I find it so hard to take only one shot. (Once I start, I keep going. Trying this angle and that, this framing of that section and this. Then see something else a few yards on ...) However, I suspect having worked on this pic today I've really stirred up that interest and will probably be taking some new architecture/shadows/plants pix soon.

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CUP OF TOMORROW

Cup of Tomorrow (11-09-09 8083v3) was not all that fussed with. Just cropped, the colors changed from coral which brought out that "icy" edging, and the entire pic was color saturated and lightly sharpened. I've had the original photo around for years and always saved it for those lovely curving lines of the petals. I feel I've finally brought out something of what I have always seen in it. And I have another version that includes the full rose and some leaves on the back burner, awaiting some clean up. Again I see why I keep saving "difficult" pictures. The day comes when a way to enjoy them finally occurs to me.

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FUCHSIA FLOAT; & CANOPY

Both pix today are old (as usual :-D) and made from the same original. Of the two, I like the above Fuchsia Float (3-27-10 8680v6) better. Mostly due to its colors. However, I do sort of like the "textures" in Canopy (3-27-10 8680v4) below, which can be seen better (at least on my screen) by clicking on the photo. Actually "Fuchsia Float" also looks better when clicked on.

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KURLIAN ROSE

Kurlian Rose (4-29-12 11817ev2) is from an old photo just re-visioned recently and tweaked a little bit today. I don't think I've ever gotten this sort of effect before and may never again. I can't recall what series of Photoshop functions I applied to it, but I know it was a lot of them, with several color inversions/re-inversions in between. All I did today was to take the colors more towards red and gold (from pink and nearly white), and to saturate them somewhat. And "Kurlian" in the title? From "Kurlian photography" which is a "collection of techniques used to capture the phenomenon of electrical coronal discharges" of things both living and inert.

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