SOCK IT TO ME!

The source pic for "Sock It To Me!" is only a little over three months old. I've fussed at it regularly since first taking it. And just this morning settled (happily enough as pix go for me these days) on how it is now. Sure do wish we'd get some more soaking rains like this one was that wet this blossom. But all we here in Goleta (near Santa Barbara) have gotten is oppressively humid weather and clouds with a few sparse, fat rain drops. While both inland and southeast of us have gotten socked. Ah well, enough of the weather report. This original pic was heavily cropped and re-cropped many times. Each time going back to the full original. Then once a crop showed up that began to work, I struggled (can't recall how) to darken that background. (It was too obviously and boringly a grayish cement wall.) Then some color intensification, and mild sharpening to bring out the rain drops. And last, but not least because it's what made me feel OK about posting it, I painted out one rather small section that threw off the entire visual balance.

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