JOSTLING FOR THE SUN

"Jostling for the Sun" is another version of one I posted here a couple days ago, flipped pretty much on its head, cropped, and slightly color saturated. I could wish for better focus, yet it looks almost like a painting. And the visual softness is compatible with the rose colors and the sunlit petals, I think. I'm not all that happy with the name but just couldn't think of anything else. Not that it doesn't fit the pic, only that it's a bit wordy. BTW, this particular group of climbing roses was even more gorgeous yesterday when I passed by. We may be in a drought but that one big rain storm we had in early March certainly has contributed to glorious spring blossoms.

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EVEN SONG; & RIVERS OF NIGHT

"Even Song" (4-15-14 048v5) above, is a new photo just edited yesterday. And below is the same photo cropped way down and further fudged with, "Rivers of Night" (4-15-14 048v8):

As usual, I have other versions of both these pix. Someone once asked why I was taking a photo of a dying rose. These photos are why. The last petals of a rose about to fall from the vine are often evocative, and then when on my monitor their patterns can be endlessly intriguing.

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CHECKING OUT THE SCENE

"Checking Out the Scene" is one of my newest pix, just fixed up ever so slightly this morning. I.e., cropping, intensifying the colors a wee bit (it was largely back lit and therefore paled out), and sharpening a little. It feels good to post a straightforward shot for a change. To have captured something of the beauty that often draws me to take photos to begin with.

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BLOOD MOON RISING

"Blood Moon Rising" (4-12-14 003v10) is only days old and just massively messed with this morning. I've obviously been influenced by the recent full lunar eclipse (called a blood moon for the rusty color the various sunsets/rises around the globe cast onto it). I'd thought to go out on our top floor here to see what might be viewable even though I had no hope of getting a pic with my low end camera. But I got all caught up in other things that evening and forgot. However, I did get to see lots of spectacular photos of it the next day. So here's my abstracted (in both senses of that word :-D) version of that lunar eclipse.

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MORNING WALK

"Morning Walk" (4-15-14 061v2) was just taken this morning and is a rare creature in my photograph universe. It's actually only been slightly cropped and color saturated, with one tiny bit of painting out of a distracting bit. This rose garden, especially given we're in a drought, is quite something this spring. I'd been hopeful when I snapped this one that it would be decent. I was shooting almost into the sun, not a tactic that bodes well for a photo. (In fact, that bit of painting out was over a rose that was so backlit as to glare whitish.) But between sheer luck, and remembering that the more area of a shot is filled with darker objects, the more bright light may be countered on auto settings, the results are passable. I also got lots of close up shots of that blooming Pride of Madeira (the bluish spikes in the back). But don't have time right now to work on those; they'll need lots of cropping due to the angles I had to take them at. I also have lots of other pix, taken in that too bright morning light that I may yet be able to reclaim in some fashion as straight forward pix. If not, they are already calling to my imagination to bring them up in Photoshop.

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THE THAW; & BURNING BRIDGES

The Thaw (4-12-14 002v4), above, was taken just a few days ago and fudged with this morning. Once I got a passable crop of a hummingbird on her nest I'd been aiming for, I became enamored of the fern patterns in the rest of the picture. Below is another place these patterns took me, to Burning Bridges (4-12-14 002v7):

When I first decided to post these together I thought they were such opposites. And certainly at one level they are. Yet in another way (the titles reveal this) they both have to do with the effect of heat. I didn't consciously plan this, just followed my imagination's nose as usual.

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LOVE BIRDS

Love Birds (4-6-14 009v5) was taken recently, and just edited a couple of days ago. The original source photo is yet another of those pix that has captured my on-going interest with its shapes and contrasts. I've already made several versions and posted a couple, with others still simmering on the back burner. In fact, yesterday's pic is a "realistic" version from a slightly different shot of the same flower.

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