COLD HEART

"Cold Heart" (5-1-13 12691ev5) was re-worked yesterday from an old photo. And, yes, as I just noted a couple posts ago, it's a type of shot/crop I work with a lot. Close, down into a blossom center. I'm readily seduced by the shapes, shadows, and seeds roses especially offer. Back to this pic, along with heavy cropping, I also fooled with texture filters. I think this one is either water color or dry brush. Additionally, somewhere along the way, I inverted the colors and then re-inverted them after changing them. That last (inverting, changing colors, and re-inverting) can produce some surprising color combos I don't arrive at readily any other way.

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CURVILINEAR

"Curvilinear" (5-1-13 12637e) has been sitting in its folder for two years. Not sure why I didn't post it before. Then again, given the number of pix I had even back then, it's not surprising some slipped between the cracks. This rediscovery of decent pix is a happy side effect of my on-going archiving/deleting project. BTW, all I did to it yesterday (and the need for this may be why it sat in that folder all that time) was work on the contrast a wee bit to brighten the whites and darken the background.

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WHAT GOES UP, MUST RAIN DOWN

"What Goes Up, Must Rain Down" (5-27-15 005v5) was just morphed today out of an earlier version of a recent photo. Again, that title clearly reflects the on-going drought here in CA. As to the pic, it's been heavily Photoshopped. Especially once that title was precipitated (you should pardon the pun) by the colors of those fountaining shapes.

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DAY LILY

"Day Lily" (6-30-15 004v4) is a brand new edit of a spanking new pic (for a change). A friend and I have been watching the bunch of day lilies this is in, bud and open for a few days now. The early evening I took these pix they were the most beautiful they'd been so far. At the time I was concerned about the light being a bit low, but (you should pardon the pun) took a shot at some pix anyway. It turns out the light was fine. The problem is in the background. All sorts of schmutz and distractions. I may yet reclaim a more distant shot that includes an open flower, a bud, and another partially open one. But it's already taken a lot of work to find a good crop and needs a great deal more on background clean up. Some other day for that. In the meantime I had fun with today's crop and editing. It looks like a color pencil sketch to me. Or a crayoned page in a children's coloring book. The latter is probably what appeals to me most (smile).

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JOY!

Yeah, I know, you've seen just this sort of shot before from me, many times. And a few even in a similar color. However, not as bright a yellow with such decent shadows. And even if I have posted one just like this before, it gives me "Joy!" (4-24-13 12597v10) to look at this one. And so there, and so what, it's posted.

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GET OUTTA MY HAIR, WILL YAH!

I offer "Get Outta My Hair, Will Yah!" (2-28-15 003v2a) as a bit of silliness. Even so, I did fuss with this pic, painting out bits of background distractions, improving the contrast, and saturating the colors a wee bit, not to mention how I tried crop after crop. Ideally, I could have moved that bird deeper into the plant/hair. But I have this sort of odd pride in not moving anything around for a shot (except, of course, for me and my camera -- smile -- or the occasional obstructing leaf). I like my representational pix to be "found photos." I want anyone viewing one to know that this was there, all one had to do was really look. And at the very least, I know that. In fact, as I've said here before I'm sure, taking photos has taught and continues to teach me to really look at things. Drawing, and later on poetry, taught me the same thing earlier in my life (drawing, as far back as early childhood). The world is the source, the library, the true paintbox ... and the prompting experience.

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HER BLOOD BOILS

"Her Blood Boils" (4-4-13 12417v5f) was just morphed this morning from an earlier morph of an old photo. I'm not consciously angry, as the title might suggest. But I'm sure if I thought about it long enough I'd come up with something to explain this red pic. In any case, there are a lot of filters crowding this final version. Enough to make anything boil, I'd say.

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