EVERY WHICH WAY BUT HOME

"Every Which Way But Home" (4-24-14 002v10b) is from an old pic, just morphed today. Clearly, I've fudged with it a great deal, and honestly I'm still not all that happy with it. Enough that I tried to torture other versions out of it. But they weren't any better. Sort of like my mood. No attempt to change it's been any better than where I was to begin with. Wandering distractedly, looking for a comfortable place to land.

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ABANDONED

"Abandoned" (8-10-14 024v2) is from another going on two year old photo, just worked on this morning. I'm often drawn to take pix of the stuff that winds up in this wooden tub that is home to a fir tree. The tub's contents (other than the fir itself, of course) change rather regularly. But it never looks cleaned out and I don't ever see anyone looking into it as I do. So I imagine some elfin spirit standing over it in the wee hours of the night adding to, taking away from, and rearranging its store of broken, tossed away gems.

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PROPELLING THE NIGHT

The original for "Propelling the Night" (8-22-14 016v3a) is almost two years old. I don't usually like an obvious, sort of flattening or overly fussy outlined effect, such as one gets from "comic" or "poster edges," and other filters. However, the outlining here is more to my liking, nicely thin and clear and consistent. I obtained it by applying "paint daubs" to the original version which added white outlining, and inverted the pic so that the outlines were black. I then fudged with the colors to bring them back toward how green might be seen on a cool night. (The color inversion made it look like a night pic and I wanted to go with that.) I also really wanted to retain those lovely curved wheel-like leaf shapes, so didn't go for any sort of distortion (for a change, smile).

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FEELING OUT A WAY

"Feeling Out A Way" (7-5-14 017v2) ... Yep, another of one of my favorite types of pix to take, ferns. I've had this version's source photo hanging around for almost two years. I think I've finally managed to make a presentable scene out of it. And it even (at least to my eye) carries what I saw when I took it.

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THE SUMMER OF SAMURAI

"The Summer of Samurai" (8-16-14 09v3) was just morphed today from an old pic. Nothing much to add except that it's one of those I can't really pick at for a change. And (as always) I enjoy looking at the those fern patterns. I made it in another color combo that could be called Night of the Samurai (black background with blue-gray shadowing in green ferns). But I'm actually getting a little bored with my penchant for bright colors on a black background, believe it or not.

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LIFE IN THE SHADOWS

Before addressing today's pic ("Life in the Shadows" 9-4-14 004v2a) I simply must say I don't know what got in to me yesterday. Because when I look at yesterday's post I think "Whuh!?" Can't figure just what I was so jazzed about in that pic. Can only figure the colors totally seduced me. Anyway, now I'm hesitant to say that I really like today's pic, "Life in the Shadows." Because even as I cleaned up a bit of too bright yellow in one place on it, I noticed some other things I'm not sure about. Shapes I can't do much about if I want to leave it realistic. And I do so like this scene as is. It was pretty much like this "live." All I did other than the usual cropping to proper dimensions, was to increase color contrast and saturation to emphasize those cool stripey shadows, and diffuse it to bring out the edges of shapes. I probably also then sharpened it a bit, as after diffuse a pic usually seems to need it.

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IN THE FURNACE OF THE ROSE

No vaguely apologetic explanations allowed ... I'm sticking with being flat out happy with this one, "In the Furnace of the Rose" (9-20-14 016v3). I'd fudged endlessly, it seemed, with the shapes. But it finally had me when the colors popped after even more fussing at the rose's original solid golden yellow.

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