RAINY DAY THOUGHTS

"Rainy Day Thoughts" (12-2-14 010v2) is an old version of an even older pic that I just "finished" today. This window is one in a series on the wall in our small theatre overlooking a main street. I sometimes stand there in the peaceful, empty theatre, just watching the activity (and sometimes lack thereof) on the sidewalk and street below.

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RINGING IN THE NIGHT

Well, clearly this was not taken recently in our heavily blooming rose garden, like pix I've posted the past few days. "Ringing in the Night" (12-22-14 001v2) is a version of an old problematic pic I just "reclaimed" yesterday as I was working on deleting pix to make space on my poor beleaguered computer. And as often happens, in the time since taking the original pic and leaving it be because it was too trouble-laden, I've learned new ways of editing pix. This version is still not quite up to snuff, IMHO, though it's problems are mostly uncorrectable (composition, for one). But it's a big improvement over what I had before. And I so like that lovely salmon pink our skies turn.

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RECRUDESCENCE

"Recrudescence" (3-24-16 015v6) was just tortured out of one of my new pix of our rose garden blooms. It was a long road to get to this version, with a couple others along the way I've saved and thought of each that they were the one I'd post today. But something kept egging me on 'til this one popped on my screen. Now that's what I'm looking for, I thought. So here it is, rising at the end of a lengthy trail.

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DANCING FOR THE STARS

"Dancing for the Stars" (3-28-16 005v2a) was just morphed this morning from a very recent pic taken in our happily blooming memorial rose garden. More posts yet to come of these flowers, I'm sure. And, yes, that title's meant to refer to both night time and to the T.V. show "Dancing With the Stars" (of which I'm a great fan). BTW, this is not a night shot (I rarely attempt them), but fudged to look as if it might be. I used Photoshop's "color curves" to drop out the background (shadows can be deepened or lightened in this function). I had particular trouble getting some of the petal edges in the right hand rose to show up until I found the best colors and saturation thereof using various other functions. The additional challenges being they had to be colors that felt balanced and pleasing, and "worked" as part of a night time scenario. (Hey, what else does this old lady have to do with her time but obsess happily over things like this? Smile.)

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THREE'S A LOVELY CROWD

"Three's A Lovely Crowd" (3-28-16 013v2) is from the newest batch of pix I've taken in our exploding rose garden. This color combo is simply delicious and may be my sole reason for posting it. Then again, I also like how little clean up I had to do of the background. Any pix I take in that garden usually require a lot of patient/boring clean up. Largely due to the distracting, vari-colored mulch that invariably peeks through foliage and between flowers in the background in some way. But also since the garden tends not to be, shall I say, overly manicured. I hasten to add I like it's tendency to a certain wildness. It just makes for messy pix, I'm afraid. And even when I use my walking stick to hold obstructions away or move a particularly gorgeous blossom into a better position, I'm almost always left painting stuff out. Or, sadly, scrapping pix I'd had high hopes for. (Though I don't delete readily, as I have learned over the years that later on my taste and skills will have changed. And I'm then sometimes able to "reclaim" a pic I might have been tempted to scrap on first sight.)

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SHADES

"Shades" (3-28-16 011v2) was just taken yesterday in that explosion of blossoms in our memorial rose garden I've been posting about. It looks fine in full color (that gray rose is a gorgeous yellow, the others are white). But "fine" just wasn't enough for me, and black & white & gray really brings out the contrast, which emphasizes those lovely shapes.

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RESURRECTION

Not a whole lot to say about this one ("Resurrection" 3-24-16 002v2) except that it's just one of the many roses that have been opening in our memorial rose garden. A resurrection suiting of Easter time, given our far from over drought. I'm hoping there will be enough light left after dinner today -- which is quite early in our retirement community on weekends -- to take more pix of the newest huge crop that I spotted late last night. Happy Easter!

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