FROM SUNLIGHT...

"From Sunlight ..." (3-9-11 10634e2 & HAIGA) is an old haiga (very briefly put, illustrated haiku) of mine. A few days ago I posted an even older one. So it seems I've gotten my taste stimulated again for this sort of photographic use. It remains to be seen, though, if I make any new ones. As I said in that recent previous post, it takes a lot of work. And in my defense, work that often goes no place. Finding the right photo, font, placement, contrasts, etc., etc. is not easy. At least not for me. Not that I mind hard work. Just that I'd like it to be productive more often than not. And I haven't found that to be true when trying to develop a photo haiga. But, we'll see, especially as I now have the Photoshop program that offers more options for editing than I was working with when I developed this haiga. BTW, the text on this haiga is more accurately termed a monoku, simply put, a one-line haiku.

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NIGHT'S BEARD

"Night's Beard" (10-3-09 7265ev4b) is a new version just made this morning of one of my earliest photos. It's the 12th now in the folder I've made over the years of this amaryllis. All of which I find problematic in some way, as I do this newest. However, every time I stumble across this folder I become re-enamored of this photo's possibilities. So thought it was time to share one of the results (no matter how mixed) that I've gotten chasing after the call of this pic's shapes and shadows. P.S. Just could not leave this pic alone and did some further cropping. Which led to a change to the above title, and now I'm quite a bit happier with it.

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LINGERING IMPRESSIONS

"Lingering Impressions" (1-22-15 004v4) is a brand new photo just morphed this morning. That palm is one of several favorites I have around the grounds of the retirement community I live in. This one is only a matter of yards from my rooms. I stand at an outdoor staircase railing and just watch it. Yesterday, the sun was getting low in the sky and the palm was bobbing lightly in bright back light. The straight forward shots I took don't work, as I suspected they wouldn't, given intense foreground shadows being cast by the back lighting, and so on. But I had also thought I might get some intriguing morphs out of the shapes and shadows. And this is the first one so far that I really like of several efforts.

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FOUND FAIRY (II)

I share "Found Fairy (II)" (1-21-15 003v2) mostly because that "fairy" on the wall really tickles me. I posted a pic I took of it to my dreams & poetry blog yesterday, taken the day before from a slightly different angle and slightly later in the day than this one. I like this one a bit more as the contrasts are clearer. BTW, I didn't feel like trying to figure out where that light was coming from when I snapped that first pic, I was enjoying it too much. But I did look around and finally figure out what was casting that light after I took this one. I walked up to the "fairy" and moved until my shadow showed in the middle of it. Then turned and looked directly back over my shoulder and wow! The light blazing off that window across the way on the second floor was blinding. Yet, of course, was barely noticeable unless standing right in its path as I was.

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WHAT DO YOU SAY ...

"What Do You Say..." (4-20-09 1613) is an very old haiga of mine (illustrated haiku). I've long since stopped putting text on my photos as it's always such a difficult task to find the right placement, font, and most of all color contrast for it. I've been putting haiku beneath my photos for years and been quite content with that. However, maybe someday I'll search for this really old photo (and there might be a better shot/crop of the tree stump in that folder), and re-do this haiga, using a different font/color. I recall yellow was the only color that stood out enough, but I've got Photoshop now, and years more experience under my belt. I just might find a better font and color. Could be worth the effort, since I still really like the idea of pairing this haiku of mine with this photo. Which is why I'm sharing it today, even with its problems. P.S. Wow, since it's such an old photo I didn't have many folders to go through just now to find the pic. Now what's my excuse for not working on a better version of this haiga? :-)

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BREAKING OUT OF THE SHELL

"Breaking Out of the Shell" (10-3-11 11324v4) may not really do so, but it moves toward what I've been attempting to do for sometime. I.e., break out of the confines of my usual way of working with pix. And though I have my quibbles with it (as usual), there is that elusive "something" that I like. I'll leave it at that.

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[aka: Patricia Kelly] **** If you wish to copy or use any of my writing or photos, please email me for permission (under “View my complete profile”) ****

DRYING OUT

"Drying Out" (1-17-15 010v3d) is a brand new photo and morph thereof. From the same folder of pix as yesterday's ersatz pointillist pic. But this one has wandered very far afield indeed from it's original angled shot looking down on our retirement community's pool. BTW, after all the inverting and re-inverting of colors and effects that I did, that large watery splotch is not even where the pool actually was within the pic's frame. (Though I did not do any actual distorting, such as is afforded by the liquify function.) Sigh. Now that this particular creative push has "dried up," I'm back to being uncomfortably aware of my more than usual joint pain today. And, yes, I have been grateful for a long time for the vaguely anesthetic effect that that sort of concentration offers (both physically and emotionally).

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