STAND AGAINST THE NIGHT

"Stand Against Night" (8-17-10 10008v7) was just made today along with several other versions, from an old pic I stumbled across yesterday. Another of those pix I'd held on to for years but had trouble with, yet now find I like as is. I just straightened, slightly cropped, and color inverted it, then used a color filter. I think that's all that was done to this version. I've been fudging back and forth between versions for over an hour now. In any case, I'm content to leave it as is above. Though, as often happens, I was happier with it when it first popped on my screen.

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AROUND THE BEND

"Around the Bend" (8-17-10 10011v2) is from a old photo I've always liked but had trouble with. Over the years I've cropped it an endless number ways. This morning when I came across it I thought for the first time that it's fine just as it is, shadow on the left, pole in the sky, etc. So I just did some fine tuning of colors, one application of diffuse, and a wee bit of cropping to the proper dimensions for my online printer (as I always do with pix, anticipating I may want copies). I wonder will I look at it again (and other pix I've had the same experience with recently), down the line, and still like it. Folk frequently say that I've really got an "eye." They should only know how that eye's perceptions change over time. I'd like to think that's good, that it indicates growth (and not just of my cataracts, and that's only partly a joke). BTW, this pic was taken in San Luis Obispo; I'd accompanied a friend on a car trip there.

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ON THE WAY

"On the Way" (9-14-10 10002v2d) is a new version made just now from a very old photo. And, as always, I have a couple other versions made this morning, too. But I like this one best, I think mostly because it hews closely to the original shot. Something my pix don't often wind up doing.

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WINTER IN THE WOODS

I've been stuck on morphing the same version of the same old pic this morning (posted one of today's others versions to my dreams & poetry blog just now). But I think I like this one, "Winter in the Woods" (10-6-10 10027ev6), the most so far. Probably largely because the color combo is a very unusual one for me.

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RAINY DAY REDS

... and it's actually raining today! (Every drop counts here in CA as we're far from recovered from the drought.) This pic, "Rainy Day Reds" (10-6-10 10027v3), is an old one I slightly re-cropped this morning. I then applied the diffuse, sharpen, and blur functions, did a wee bit of painting out, and only slightly saturated those reds. I won't say I'll never try to fudge further versions from it. But the result of today's efforts suits me just fine. (It does make me wonder, though, if I shouldn't get my butt away from in front of this computer and out there moving around, and take some rainy day pix.)

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"Her Offerings" (my photo & photomorph exhibit/sale of 1-17-16)

This is how I displayed almost 400 of my pix yesterday in our retirement community's common room. (There are regular exhibits here on Sundays of residents' arts & crafts.) There are five binders on that table, the smallest actually didn't have any pix in it. Just samples of my drawings, flyer designs, collages, etc., some with my poems on them. And one other book had photos but each was accompanied by a poem (prints of what I post every day to my dreams & poetry blog). The other three biggest binders, were nothing but pix. I usually like 4X6 prints or at most 5X7, but have recently been trying larger sizes. Some of those are on the wall. (I did move that walker with my bamboo/flute cane and other stuff more to the side before the "show" actually started.)

I find an exhibit an exhausting undertaking. And though my goal has not ever been to make money (more than covering expenses), but to share at least a tiny portion of the thousands of pix I've taken over the years, I've usually been rather let down on both fronts. However, this time not only did folk really seem to enjoy browsing through five full binders, but I made a bit of money beyond the expenses. Yes, most folk went through each binder, page by page. I was in hog heaven. And one fellow resident who studied at the Brooks Institute for Photography, sat across that table from me and "talked turkey" with me for some time. (I rarely get to chat about photography.)

There were also several conversations about art of all kinds. One about what it means to stand firm on one's own vision. One woman commenting that aging has helped her with that, that it doesn't matter as much anymore what others may think. I certainly hope to get to that place myself someday! Though I have always stood rather firmly on the bedrock of my own vision, it has often caused me a lot of discomfort (to put it mildly) to have others judge it wrong or ignorant. (When I was young it even contributed to a lengthy bout of writers block.)

But I've wandered from the point, it was a wonderful experience. And given how I felt after my previous handful of exhibits here, that's saying a great deal. Now I have to print the pix that were ordered so I'd better end this post here.

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