CATCH & RELEASE

"Catch & Release" (5-13-18 032) is one of 57 (!) new pix I took about a week ago. I've been saying here how maybe taking new pix is what I needed to do to get out of this kinda, sorta photography slump. As much fun as it is working on one or more of the thousands of old pix I have, there's nothing like new ones to spur me on. What it took to get me to snap new ones, though, was a comment by a friend. She said she couldn't really imagine what I see on my long walks other than sidewalks and maybe some flat green lawns. Well, I took that as a challenge (:-D) and when I next went walking wound up taking 57 pix. Among them, this one. It's of one of my favorite trees to sit under and rest and/or write. Unusual for my pix, I only had to crop it a wee bit. But I did do a lot of fussing with the color/contrast. Also unusual, I didn't take much time or care to "making art" with any of the 57 pix (e.g., fussing and moving around to frame the pic just right, or not taking some I could tell would be too burned out by even the hazy sunlight). And surprisingly, some of the pix turned out better than most I really "work" at before snapping. I'll probably post more here from this batch in the future.

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