AFTERNOON OF A FERN

"Afternoon of A Fern" (5-28-16 006v3) was just now morphed from a brand new pic. And, yes, the title takes off from the famous ballet "Afternoon of a Faun," equally famously danced by Nijinsky. Not much else I can add with any brevity, as I fussed quite a bit to get it to where it is now. I have three other versions I like almost as much, but those can wait for another day for posting. This one best suggests that subtext of erotic desire that the ballet conveys. BTW, I did not fudge with any of the lines and shapes; those are as they are in the fern and the original pic. Though I did do some diffusing and sharpening to emphasize them. (Click on the pic to see the details, especially the curling ends of the fern branches.)

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THE STORM'S PASSED

"The Storm's Passed" (4-8a-15 026v3) has been hanging around for over a year, awaiting what I knew would be some frustrating work to fix the contrast. I.e., the original had an overly dark contrast that I'd fussed with when I first took it, and messed up. But I've always liked this view (and the one in the wider crop that takes in stairs up the side of that building) so I kept it. And today I decided to do or die. Well, I'm not certain this isn't a "die." The contrast is improved but still not quite right. Yet, it was taken by the last of storm light, which is different from sunny or overcast. So I'm leaving it be as it is now. The thing that gave me the most fits, however, was that umbrella. Adjusting its hue so that it didn't take over the pic like a stop light was no fun. I was surprised to find out how much of the rest of the pic was underlain by the same orange-red of that umbrella! I'd adjust that particular color and other spots I didn't want changed became icky shades. This isn't the first time, nor will it be the last, that I've come across this issue. It's just that it's usually more obvious how widespread a hue may be.

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FUCHSIA'S OFFSPRING

"Fuchsia's Offspring" (4-8a-15 8284) is one of my oldest pix that I copied over into a current folder recently thinking to clean it up at last. "At last" just came and I did a bunch of painting out (lots of schmutz in the background), then some color work (those leaves were even more grayish), and then a bit of fussing with sharpness and diffusing. Now it's presentable, if a bit quirky. But it was that quirkiness that prompted me to keep it around all these years to begin with. That, and the glorious fuchsia rose, sort of waving that one bud on its long stem.

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NEW MOON ASCENDANT

"New Moon Ascendant" (4-8a-15 031v2d) was morphed yesterday out of the usual (old version of even older pic). It's one of the very few pix recently that have not only given me a happy "yes" of surprise when it showed up on my screen, but is still in that same happy place today on viewing it quite a bit in order to name it. I.e., I haven't found anything in it to pick at. I almost hesitated to say that, as my unconscious might just be listening a bit too closely and toss something up that's pick-worthy. However, so far, so good.

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A KISS TO REMEMBER

We could sure use some of the rain this pix shows! (Actually it's only a year old pic, and that was one of the rare rain storms we had last year, too.) "A Kiss to Remember" (4-8a-15 028v2) was cropped today from a somewhat bigger pic. I did some color fussing to bring it closer to my memory of the rose's actual color. It's hard to remember color (and scent is harder yet) with any real accuracy, isn't it ... at least for me. But I do think this is close to the original bloom's shade of pale peach. I also did a little fussing with texture and contrast to bring out the rain drops a bit more; also had to paint out some distracting background "schmutz." I was going to say how good it is to post a realistic pic, yet after all that, how realistic is it really? Then I realized (again) that by just choosing an angle from which to frame a shot, and the time of day, one has already begun the editing process. No way around it. The photog is present, to one degree or other, in every pic.

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THE MOUNTAINS MAKE AN IMPRESSION

"The Mountains Make An Impression" (11-24-15 053vb) was just morphed yesterday from (yup!) an old version of an even older pic. I'm probably mostly drawn to its very vague resemblance to the impressionist style of painting. Which is the result of using the ocean ripple filter on top of glowing lines, in a pic that had already been heavily fudged with in other ways. I've often thought if one of these massively fussed with pix of mine could be reverse edited that it'd be like an archaeological dig, layer after layer after layer. Of course with nothing quite so interesting at the bottom as an ancient unknown dinosaur bone or shard of pottery. Smile.

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THE HEART REVIVES

"The Heart Revives" (10-24-15 011v3) was finally finished this morning. It was one of those pix that's been "in the works" for quite some time. I'd keep coming back to it and just give up, but not enough to delete it. So the title is fitting beyond that central seed shape resembling a heart.

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