TRAVELING LIGHT

"Traveling Light" is a recent re-working of a very old photo, and appeared in August this year on my dreams & poetry blog. But when I ran across it today it was a surprise, not even vaguely familiar. Even though I'd been working on other versions of the original photo for probably 45 minutes. Odd. I rarely completely forget a pic, especially one I've edited. Well, I won't worry about memory loss yet, given I have thousands of photos crowding my computer. :-) Oh, the changes to the original? Only cropping, tilting, and re-coloring.

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COMPADRES

I've had "Compadres" (8-14-14 005v2) pretty much ready for posting for some time. However, since I'd already put up a different view of these same blossoms, I thought I'd wait for some time to pass. Well, that and the fact that I had yet to clean out little distractions on one edge of the pic and just was not up to it. But today seemed a good day to spend time doing that sort of patient focusing. (It's not so much the visual focus required as the need to artfully control a recalcitrant mouse "spray paint brush" that I'm sometimes put off by.)

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IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED ON 9/11

No photo today, just an expression of my deep hope that all who were terribly effected by the 9/11 Twin Towers disaster in New York City have found healing and peace. (If you would like to read a short excerpt from a haibun series I wrote back then about my experiences living in NYC during 9/11, click here.)

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EVENING'S LAST LIGHT

The color of the little blossoms in "Evening's Last Light" (8-16-14 006v2) is just about my favorite color. Especially in this setting. Though I hasten to admit that "live" it's pinker. Just as lovely, though. I had fussed many other versions from this photo, but for a change a first crop -- and only slightly color saturated -- is the one I like the most. (Post first posting: Argh! This is also one of those pix that appears different when viewed in blogger. Much lighter and far less striking. So I've had to make an additional, even darker version, to counteract blogger's "bleaching" in order to get it to appear here like the one I chose to post.)

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MIRROR, MIRROR, ON THE WALL...

"Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall..." (8-22-14 016v15b) is a brand new morph of a recent pic. One I rather like. I'm now looking forward to using this combo of filter effects a bit differently. Of course, just using them on a different photo will change their results and where I want to go with them. BTW, I took some pix of the last night of my Ganesh Chaturthi festival altar. One of which I will post here at some future date.

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DANCING INTO THE SEA & SMOOTHING THE WAY

Sigh, the last day of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival. Time to return Ganesh to the Ganges, or ocean as I see it. I will symbolically dunk one of my small metal Ganesh pendants in water this evening to honor His return to our unconscious (where He's always been, at least to my understanding). And that's why the photo morph above, "Dancing Into The Sea" (9-5-14 004v8). It's that brass figurine of mine that holds my letter opener, of which I posted a pic two days ago. And since it's the last day of the festival I'm posting another pic below. This one of that unusual two-armed Ganesh figurine of mine, called "Smoothing the Way" (9-4-14 007v2):

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RESPLENDENT

Since this is a photography blog, I'll resist the strong urge to talk more about Ganesh's traditional attributes. Except to mention that His vehicle or mount is also included on this figurine, i.e. a rat, or mouse, or shrew. (It's by His right foot.) I've heard many interpretations of this, mostly as representative of something negative to be overcome. But I prefer one I read many years ago that it's indicative of His humble nature that Ganesh has the lowly mouse for his mount. I call this photo "Resplendent" (9-6-14 002v2) because of the incredible and beautiful detail on it. The kohl around His eyes, the details on his forehead and trunk, his mount eating a grape, and even his toenails are painted! It's difficult to see all the painstaking work that was done on this only 4" tall Ganesh in the above pic, but "live" it's just delightful. The figurine was another of those that came to me as a gift (from a dear friend).

Tomorrow's the last day day of Ganesh Chaturthi. It was a sweet challenge to choose this next to last pic of Him to post. Well, if this is the next to last of mine I post. That remains to be seen. A photo's a photo, if of a Hindu deity or not. :-)

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