PAINTERLY

Painterly (3-17-14 010v2) is a about two weeks old, and just finished this morning. It had some distracting bits that needed to be painted out. Not to mention I had to fuss with further darkening its mid-range colors just for posting to blogger. (That color problem cropped up again with this pic. So I now have two versions, one for here, and one for viewing in all other programs and printing.) I should also add that I'm not content with the title but it's the only one that's come to me so far.

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ROLE REVERSAL

The original from which I tortured Role Reversal (4-3-14 016v3) is a sweet little red rose. (I'll post the original some other time once I've cleaned up some distracting patches.) I've been taking more pix recently. And am, once again, thinking it's long past time to really get to know my camera. Such as, white balance and ISO stuff. Oh, which camera? My old Samsung. That FujiFilm wide angle lens a friend gave me recently makes me a bit nuts warping angles as it does, especially as I rarely take landscape shots. But back to "Role Reversal," it's the sort of work I most enjoy doing these days ... making something imaginative out of something realistic.

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BOWING OUT

I'm posting this years-old picutre, Bowing Out (8-25-10 10013v2), today more out of nostalgia than because I think it's a "successful" photo. It's been years since this cactus (is that what it is?) has been supported so it could climb the wall of this chimney. I just noticed yesterday that once again there are hooks to which holding ties can be looped as it grows. I missed one of its blossoms already as they don't last very long, wilting as the one in this pic had. But I'm hoping to catch any future ones this year in all their opened glory. And it's not only the beauty that draws me to them, but the associated memories around these blossoms as they adorn the wall. I may have mentioned before here (back quite a ways) how residents would gather beneath it, joyfully anticipating and then viewing the blooms.

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VIEW FROM THE MOUNTAINSIDE

View from the Mountainside (4-10-13 12431v2) is a recent re-working of a year-old photo. I was doing more of that cleaning out of my pic folders and, as always, I came up with nefarious plans for a few (other than deleting them). When I tried these colors on this one (after first torturing the photo into these shapes) I immediately thought of the sunsets we get around here over the mountains. BTW, the original is not of a sunset, but of yellow roses in a lot of messy greenery. Go figure! This is what can happen when you follow your nose.

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RIDING FOR A FALL

Riding for A Fall (3-14-14 018v4) was made at the same time from the same original pic as "Adsorption," posted here on March 25th. At that time I wasn't particularly drawn to the colors and feel of "Riding for A Fall" so put it on hold. But they suit my mood very well today (unfortunately).

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SPRING HAS SPRUNG

Spring Has Sprung is of one of many favorite subjects of mine to photograph in spring (really almost any time of year), fern leaves. Something in my "eye" loves patterns. Even as it also enjoys messing with them. In this case, though, I very happily left them as is. Ooops! Tell a lie, I do have another version of this same crop of the original photo. But for once I like this "au natural" take on it more. That's not to say I didn't do a little color adjustment; I did, but just to bring out the contrasts between the various shades of green.

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THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY

The Sincerest Form of Flattery (4-4-13 12428v2) is a new version of a year-old photo. I'm probably more engaged by this color family than by anything else about it. Though I do enjoy those repeating wave patterns (thanks to Photoshop, with an overlay of a couple different filters to make them less regular).

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