DRAGON AT THE GATE

"Dragon at the Gate" (12-6-17 021v2) was fudged yesterday from a very new pic. Yep! That's my fave tree in Anisqoyo Park on the left. And that's a mill building in the mid-background (there's a stream/pond with ducks back there). Off in the distance to the right is where I go shopping regularly. Where I usually sit to write is to the back of the viewer, barely half a block. I already have several versions of this pic, from slightly artsy to rather pixelated (seriously, looking like a pointillist painting), but none have gone fully abstract ... yet. :-) BTW, when my pix look vaguely pointillist, it's not from the Photoshop function "Pointillism." That just doesn't do it for me. I come to the look via a different function, and fussing with one of it's various sub-function slides. Oy, I should have left that last about pointillism to a post in which it's actually applicable. But I'm not very sensible today. I think the wild fires and the miserable air quality is getting to my ability to focus. How's that for a denial of just plain getting old? :-)

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NIGHT LIFE

"Night Life" (12-6-17 012v2a) was just morphed from a pic taken the day before yesterday. It's of that favorite tree in Anisqoyo Park that I keep posting pix of here. But this shot was taken from a distance for a change (rather than right in front, almost underneath it). Kinda, sorta like it. But it makes me sad 'cuz I couldn't ... well, "coulda but din't wantah" ... go for a walk today. The air quality is so poor given the wild fires right near us. Of course, I'm grateful to be able to type "right near us," but it's all so sad and scary. Anyway, the day after I took this pic I had a miserable headache all day. And that's what happens when I'm exposed too much to wild fire smoke. And often it becomes a migraine. So, no walk. No new pix. But that's truly no problem given the thousands I have on my computer to fuss at. As I did "Night Life." :-)

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PAS DE TROIS; & A POINTILLIST DREAM

"Pas de Trois" (12-6-17 007v3) was just taken yesterday and worked on this morning. The scene may look familiar as I've posted other pix of this area of trees. It's only yards from where I frequently sit and write poetry. As I approach my sitting spot, I sometimes have been taking pix along the way. If the sun isn't too bright, that is. Unfortunately, there are major wild fires not far from I.V. right now and that's what gave the light a somewhat helpful haze yesterday. And here below is another version of almost the same shot, "A Pointillist Dream" (12-6-17 005v5d). As the "texture" of "Pas de Trois" evolved to look a wee bit like a painting, I began to see a vague resemblance to Impressionism in it -- can you tell that by where I took the below pic? :-) Maybe what draws me to Impression -- besides its beauty and how it approaches the edges of the abstract at times -- is my recognition of the idea underlying it: we do not see the thing itself, but the light bouncing off of it (try clicking on the below for a larger version to see the details):

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THE ROMANTIC

"The Romantic" (12-31-09 18678v3) is another of my oldest pix, posted here ages ago, and just today re-cropped a bit. I thought of it after trying to get pix of this month's gorgeous Cold Moon, with little success. Or rather, I caught this month's moon just fine -- it was the surrounding buildings that were a total flop. This pic's moon was in January of 2009, BTW. The full moons this time of year do tend to be rather spectacular. Also, I took this pic with an old, low pixel count Gateway (which company doesn't even make cameras anymore). I've yet to match this shot with (supposedly) better cameras. Well, there's one other I have of February's Wolf Moon a couple of years later. But given the number of full moon shots I try that's a pitiful success rate.

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AUTUMN AT THE HEART

"Autumn at the Heart" (10-5-09 7369v2) is a many year old version of one of my oldest pix ever. I've always liked that hint of warm color at the center and just today highlighted it a tiny bit by intensifying the yellow. Also love those petal curves and shadows. Used to take many more shots like this of flowers -- and crop many more into this sort -- but don't do any of that so much in recent years. Therefore it was a bit of a meander down memory lane to work on and post this pic, raising all sorts of feelings. And stirring memories related to my life in the time it was taken, fall of 2009; I'd only been living here in CA (from NYC) for 9 months. And autumn was in my heart then in more ways than one, as it is now.

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THE GHOSTS OF AUTUMN

"The Ghosts of Autumn" (12-2-17 004v3) was morphed yesterday from a brand new pic. What else to say that I haven't said before about how I love the fall season. This particular vine is on a white wall around a Jewish student center in Isla Vista. I've taken many shots of it over the years I've lived here. But fall produces the most interesting shots, I think. And I will someday find out what the name of the vine is. I just tried googling for it, referencing those small blue berries, but couldn't find a pic with the proper shaped of leaf. (Lots of different sorts came up. I'll have to either refine my search parameters, or go through all the results I initially got.)

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