SEARCHING FOR SEPIA

"Searching for Sepia" (2-16-16 002v2) was just fussed out of a few months' old pic. (That building is somewhat further along at this point, but not as much as one might think.) The title comes out of exactly that: trying to find the exact sepia tone I wanted, and did not get. Well, not exactly true. I could get the tone, but then the pic took on a rather hazy aspect I did not like. Or that lighter area that crosses in the middle would be too bright and take over the pic. And it already bisects the photo, making me a wee bit uncomfortable. It's always something, isn't it? I'm again reminded of the quote (my paraphrasing) that a piece of art is never finished, just abandoned. Or as I might put it today, one just gives up the frustrating search and embraces what one has.

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DRAGON RISING

"Dragon Rising" (12-8-15 002v4k) was just morphed from (you got it!) an old version of an even older photo. And as usual, I made several other versions (none of which I saved, though) before I got to this one and said "Yes, now I'm good to go."

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THE JOYFUL RAVAGES OF TIME

"The Joyful Ravages of Time" (12-8-15 002v3c3) was just now morphed from an older version of an even older pic. Don't have much else to say about it except that I like the colors and clearly fussed at it a great deal in Photoshop. Also, the title and it's feel reflect what I've been thinking a lot recently about the process of getting even older. (I turned 72-going-on-16 this past January.)

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THE INSPIRATION FOR DENDRITES

"The Inspiration for Dendrites" (5-2-16 007v2) is from a very new pic, and (unusual for me) not fussed with much at all. Basically, one huge crop of the original (of necessity, it was taken at quite a distance) and a wee bit of color contrast and texture work. I love watching these trees in the wind, and even when they're still. (The one on the right used to have a really cool, zig-zag, sort of lightning bolt shaped bare branch, low on it. Some storm or other finally made an end to that multiple elbowed beauty of a branch a while back.) I thought longer than probably even makes sense about a title for this pic. But kept coming back to how much the trees look like illustrations I've seen of our brains' dendrites. (Which word, BTW, means tree-like in Greek.)

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SALMON RUN

"Salmon Run" (4-20-16 001v2) was just morphed from a rather new pic. I took it sitting on our library balcony, but not at sunset. I fudged the colors and silhouetted the foreground objects by fussing back and forth between Photoshop and MS Picture Manager. But those shapes were all there in the actual sky (i.e., I did not create them in Photoshop); they're streaky clouds in a blue sky in the original pic. I just kept seeing fish in that large almost central curvy shape and the one below it, and when I happened on a salmon pink for them I was delighted. Especially as sunsets here display that color.

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FREE-FOR-ALL

"Free-For-All" (5-2-16 3210v3) is a new version just fudged today from a very old photo. I don't know why I'm so fond of this pic, but I have been since I first took it years ago. Usually this sort of visual mess leads me to turn it into an abstract (if I don't simply delete it). But this one's mayhem pleases me, it's so ... dynamic. Quite the opposite from yesterday's pic which I would describe as very grounded.

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A FAVORITE VIEW

"A Favorite View" (5-2-16 10017e) was just re-worked a bit today from a very old photo of mine (re-cropping, a wee bit of sharpening, some color adjustment, and a warming filter). As the title indicates, a view I always enjoy, whether I take out my camera or not. It's quite a challenge to get a decent shot of it all. Even this pic was more to my liking when I first stumbled across it this morning. Now I see all the things that bothered me back when I first took it. I spent some time today trying to work out those glitches but not to much success. And yet the pic still appeals to me, so I'm posting it anyway.

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