WATCH YOUR STEP

"Watch Your Step" (10-1-10 10012e) is a very old pic, "rediscovered" a while back during my archiving/deleting project. It may have been posted here before (if so, years ago). But since I did some minor cropping this morning that improved it a wee bit, that makes it (kinda, sorta) new.

On not always knowing if I've posted a pic before: my record keeping has gone through several big permutations, one in which for a brief time I didn't keep any posting record at all. Determining the posting history of pix can therefore get dicey sometimes. I have recently (duh! took me long enough, only about 6 years) started indicating at the end of the actual computer file name of the photo where it's been used. In addition to my usual daily detailed notes.

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NOW I LAY ME DOWN TO SLEEP

"Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" (9-15-13 013v2) is from the same old folder as yesterday's post. And has been only slightly cleaned up since coming across it again in my archiving/deleting work. (I.e., a couple of small distracting spots were painted out.) As with many pix I'm coming to again after a long time I can barely recall what my problem(s) with it were that kept me from posting and/or printing it. Of course, as with other pix, I may just have forgotten about it in the rush to work on the subsequent days' huge batch of photos. Back then I was still happily taking a great many pix every day. I take fewer now, and sporadically, but just as happily. Given how easy it is for pix to "fall between the cracks" in my thousands, I've started making note of specific pix and folders I don't want to forget. Not a fool proof method, especially given how my tastes and skills change over time. But it has made finding a decent/appropriate pic to post here or on my dreams & poetry blog, or to send to someone, quite a bit easier on occasion.

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A FULL PLATE

"A Full Plate" (9-15-13 021v2) is one of those pix unearthed a while back in my on-going archiving/deleting project, and cleaned up just a tiny bit today. Thought it might make a nice "palate cleanser" after the many highly fudged with pix I've posted recently.

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HEART LIKE AN OCEAN

"Heart Like An Ocean" (8-18-15 005v8) was just morphed this morning from a brand new pic. What can I say? Even though the original blush pink rose pic is fine (needing only some background cleanup), I just could not resist fooling around with it.

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COMES THE DAWN

"Comes the Dawn" (8-12-15 019v2b) was just morphed now from a very new pic. Clearly, lots of fudging with it in Photoshop. However, the basic lines and shapes are from the source photo's petals and seed center, even that leaning to one side. It was those aspects that drew me to photograph this overblown rose to begin with. Already wondering what might be built around them once on my computer screen.

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WILDFIRE SKY

Fortunately so far, we've not seen a sky where I live in CA such as "Wildfire Sky" (8-6-15 002v4). But there are certainly enough videos and film on the broadcast news of the many fires burning around CA (and other states) to have influenced this pic. It's a scary time. E.g., on the 11:00 pm news last night fires were reported to have started only hours earlier in not so far away areas. I even hesitated to post this pic for the not very rational fear it could invoke just such a view from our retirement community's front gate. But it also appeals to my wannabe artist's eye so here it is.

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CORNERED

"Cornered" (8-12-15 015) is one of those extremely rare pix of mine with almost no fussing done to it. Some minor cropping, but only to fix the edges because it needed to be ever so slightly straightened. It's too soon to say if that's because it was taken with my new camera (more on that below). It could just be the luck of the draw. You take enough pix and one is bound to be fine, as is. Of course, I doubt many folk would agree that "Cornered" is "fine, as is." But something about it strongly appeals to me, so I'm leaving it alone.

The new camera: a NIKKON Coolpix S6900, 16mp, touch screen (which is driving me nuts getting used to), adjustable LED view screen, and more. I really had no business (and even less money for) getting a new one. But as I've been saying on this blog for a long time I've just not been all that happy with my Samsung. However, after just a couple of days with this NIKKON I'm beginning to accept that having cameras is like having relationships with people. Each one brings different things to the table. (E.g., I tend to remember the old Gateway I first worked with rather fondly because it had excellent focus with no fuss at all. Forgetting how it had such a low pixel count that I could not do much cropping before a pic went wonky.) Since starting on this photo journey in 2009, I've worked with six cameras (three currently in my possession), all different in their hows and results. Ah, well, it's always fun to try new things and discover what they offer. And I'll remind myself I typed that when I'm next at the NIKKON's view screen, flapping my fingers around in frustration trying to get to some function via it's touch screen. Smile.

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