THE NONCONFORMIST

The Nonconformist (3-14-14 009v3) was just taken and worked on yesterday. It's one of those I doubt can please anyone but me. It tickled me when I saw this scene. I can only imagine someone actually stuck that yellowing stag horn branch in that bush, as its stem is thoroughly wound between the branches. (And we haven't had any winds I know of wild enough to accomplish that, at least not since that storm we had at the beginning of this month.) So that thought makes me laugh: Hey, fella, I noticed and got the joke!

By the way, I did have to do some fussing with colors and contrast because the stag horn tends to take over the photo otherwise. And there are other technical issues I have with this photo. However, I still like it. As the saying goes, a face only a mother could love.

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REACHING OUT

Reaching Out (3-14-14 023v2) was just taken yesterday and worked on this morning. It's one of the few in the considerable batch of pix I took that I like. And I've now discovered the disadvantage to a wide angle lens camera. It exaggerates angles at a distance from the central focus of the pic. I also see the advantage when taking landscapes. However, the vast majority of those photos I take are close to at most mid-range shots so this is problematic. I took what would have been a nice shot of the flowers and leaves in "Reaching Out" from a mid-distance, that included the sidewalk, background buildings/windows, and a wall on one side. And due to the wide angle lens, the straight lines of the walk, buildings, windows, and wall were all skewed way out of line. And they would not have been with my Samsung, non-wide angle lens camera. At the very most I might have had to crop the farthest edges and/or tilt the pic a bit. Sigh. Seems I may have to carry both cameras with me. Or just live with this Fujifilm's limitations until I get that smartphone I will inevitably have to get.

Anyway, back to "Reaching Out." For some reason I'm tickled each season by these little blossoms and their leaves, and that "straight laced" grass that grows near them, when they burst forth. There's such a fervid response to the sun, a hunger.

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AFTERNOON AT THE GATE; SPRING AT THE GATE

I'm not sure about this photo's cropping. I like that "framing" by the dark trees, yet, is it too intense? (Not to mention those bells are uncomfortably close to dead center.) So, as I've done before, I'm posting Afternoon at the Gate (above) anyway to see if that will make how I feel clearer. And below is another much fussed with version Spring at the Gate. I like the colors and textures. But I'm still concerned about that "framing." Although I think the decreased contrast with the sky has softened it, it may also have made it less interesting and possibly puzzling as a "frame":

I have two other versions in different color families of this photo but have the same questions about them, as well. Actually, as I looked at both of these in "preview" just now before posting to the 'net I think the problem for me is with the branch in the upper right. It's a bit distracting. So I just did a quick re-crop, but then the other bushy tree areas make only a sort of messy sense. It's that tree branch that organizes the entire "frame" for the eye. Ah well, live and learn! (And take and edit pix, "successful" and otherwise.)

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NIGHT FALLS

Night Falls is from a very old photo, just re-worked today. Nothing much to say about it. Just that it's from a time when I was able to take long daily photo walks. And as I wandered through the full folder its in I had some delightful memories. Not so much of getting photos I was happy with, but of enjoying all the sights and discoveries that day. Maybe once I've lost a whole lot more weight my arthritis pain will lessen, and I'll be able to take more regular and somewhat longer photo walks. I'd say I don't even need the camera to revel in it all. However, as I've noted here before, I never look closer at things than when I'm snapping pix.

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JUST A SONG AT TWILIGHT

I've had Just A Song At Twlight (7-28-12 12087v6) in good enough shape for posting for a week or so, yet some other pic kept getting my attention. But when I came in my front door (I did put it up there in the tiny constantly changing gallery I tape up) after my morning walk today I realized how much I like these colors. And as always enjoy these petals shaping themselves almost visibly actively around the seeds. (BTW, I clearly made a lot of color changes, but those petal shapes are as they were in the original, no Photoshop morphing.)

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SPRING DASH

Not a whole lot to say about Spring Dash (5-9-12 11931e). It's an old version of an old pic that I just now re-cropped a wee bit and adjusted the colors and "texture" to be a little more interesting. I was drawn to it today because it's a spring rose and it's already feeling a bit like spring to me. I miss the longer days so much that just the first day yesterday of one more hour of light has effected me.

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FRAZZLED

Frazzled (5-9-12 11935v2) pretty much expresses my state of mind today. The way I look at it ("it" being both me and the pic), a disorganized swirl around an irritable center. By the way -- and I'm sure it's no big surprise -- "Frazzled" is only one of many versions of the source photo. Several of which I've already posted here. Guess I held this one until (you should pardon the pun) the mood hit me.

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