CLOUD BURST

I wish "Cloud Burst" (8-14-14 005v7) could act as rain magic. The drought here in CA continues. As to the photo, it's clearly been massively fudged with in Photoshop. One of those pix I just selected at random and started applying filters to. Just to see what would happen. Usually I have a some intent when I choose a filter or series thereof. Of course, once I see the results I almost always get pulled to follow some new idea down. In this case, I just kept going rather willy nilly, until I saw something I did like. I think now that I was trying to see if I could break out of some habitual ways I have developed of editing pix. The results are odd but also oddly (if not fully) pleasing to my eye. Maybe only because of their resemblance to blossoms in a rainstorm.

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AUTUMN WIND; & WINTER STORM

"Autumn Wind" (10-7-14 009v3k) above, is (need I even say it?) only one of many versions of the same crop of the same original new photo. It brings back childhood memories (in New York state) of running through piles of fall leaves and chasing after them when the wind whipped them up. And "Winter Storm" (10-7-14 009v41) below, is yet another version, with associations to a different season of childhood memories:

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BIRD IN TREE

"Bird in Tree" (10-7-14 006v2a) is another of those I'll initially say I've little to say about and probably wind up nattering on. And here I go ... to my eye it's, well, bland. Yet it tickles me. Probably because I could see it accompanied by a haiku since I think of it as a blossoming cherry tree (a rather traditional haiku subject, that, cherry blossoms).  And of course the vaguely parchment paper color adds to the sense of an ancient Japanese ink painting. Though these lines are far fussier than any I've seen in Japanese brush drawings. But it's still reminiscent of such. And therefore as I say above, tickles me. Even prompting me to write a haiku:

the branch and singing bird
blend in fluttering shadows
cherry blossoms

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MEMORY'S INROADS

"Memory's Inroads" (10-7-14 008v8) is a new morph of a new photo. One of those dying flower centers with which I get so fascinated. There are plenty in our retirement community's memorial rose garden these fall days.

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CHASING ONE'S TAIL

"Chasing One's Tail" (4-10-13 12434v5) was just morphed today out of one of my old already fudged with photos. One I was never quite content with but saw something in. Guess I had to be in the right frame of mind (that is, feeling like I've been chasing my own tail for some time now) to finally get at it. At least to my satisfaction. I'm not sure anyone else will see the tiger head in profile at the top right, then its body on the bottom, and its tail vaguely curving into the upper left.

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AMETHYST MOON; & LINGERING IMPRESSION

I really enjoy messing with pix of the centers of flowers, especially those on the way out. They have such intriguing shapes and shadows. "Amethyst Moon" (10-7-14 006v8) above, grabs me also for it's colors and textures. The photomorph below, "Lingering Impression" (10-7-14 006v6) is from the same crop of the same original pic of an almost dead rose. And tickles my fancy nearly as much:

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INTO THE DARK

"Into the Dark" (10-7-14 019v7) continues on with yesterday's theme of this time of year, and the day before's of the lessening of day light hours. And as often is the case, it's just one of several versions of the same (new) original pic. I'd been carefully chasing some very busy bees around a bush of white roses. I didn't get any clear pix of any of them, nor even of the roses. But I have had fun morphing the "failed" roses/bees pix. However, there wasn't any bee in this one, not even a blurry one. They'd long since taken off. :-)

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