AUTUMN RAIN

"Autumn Rain" (2-7-10 19432v2) was just now morphed out of a very old original pic of mine. Another of those I've always liked but found troublesome for various reasons. Today's version will do. Though I do hope to some day be able to "fix" the original so I can share a more natural pic of this tree that no longer exists. Like that tree whose achingly new tree stump I posted a pic of here a couple days ago, this one paid the price for living in community with humans. Though to give credit where credit is due, you can see the efforts that were made over the years to keep it, given all that pruning of the branches right above the trunk. But it's roots were wreaking havoc on our underground pipes. And this area now has lots of drought resistant greenery that is certainly more suitable to our climate. But the heart loves what it loves and remembers it all. BTW, that sort of rain-like effect is from the "frosted" filter in Photoshop, with some diffusing and sharpening as well. And I clearly did lots of fussing at the colors and contrast, etc. FYI, I did not come to the original pic thinking to turn it into a night time rain pic. That only suggested itself to me late in the editing/exploring process.

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WHICH WAY FROM HERE

Another new version made (today) from one of my oldest pix ("Which Way From Here" 2-7-10 19423v2). What else to say? It's a shot I've always been quite fond of, but it's also always been problematic. In this version I decided to go with a square crop because that got rid of the most problematic area: bright, distracting spots of lamp light on the seat of that chair on the right that did not yield to any number of attempted solutions. (Even so, I had to do a wee bit of clean up in that area today, but that was manageable.) I prefer a horizontal rectangular shape to this pic, but the sacrifice of that allows me to enjoy these blooms in yet another version of this pic. Click here to see another version I worked up of this pic this morning. I'm not quite content yet with how I "cleaned up" that problematic area on the chair seat in this version on my dreams&poetry blog, but it'll do until I have the patience to try again. :-)

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ROOTS OF THE LIGHT

"Roots of the Light" (2-7-10 19448v3a) was just morphed from an old version of a really old original pic of mine. Not over the moon about it, but (as I often say) there is something I do really like in it. I almost edited its color to lean towards fire as the shapes and textures put me in mind of the on-going Hawaiian lava eruptions. But somehow the pic wanted to stay with that sense of light coming out of darkness. How dark and light are, at a profound level, parts of the same "tree." (Sheesh! What a lot of philosophizing in back of such a "meh" photo.) BTW, the original pic before all the fudging I did this morning, is of a mass of bare tree branches, with one double tree trunk standing out somewhat in the foreground. You can just vaguely see this if you imagine the pic flipped 45 degrees to the right (the actual orientation of the original pic).

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THE COOL DOWN

"The Cool Down" (5-13-18 010v2b) was just tortured out of one of those pix of canna leaves I've been nattering on about the past couple of days. Nothing much else to add to what I've been saying here. Except to share a different crop of the same pic version:

It's not as balanced visually (5-13-18 010v3c1), and that's actually what I like more about it. Yet the imbalance tends to bring out (and leave in) some distracting spots. So, what to do, what to do ... well, probably I should just not to take this all so seriously. Nothing's perfect (and "nothing lasts and nothing is finished," to complete that ancient Japanese aesthetic), much less anything I produce. Have I ever mentioned here that I consider my work -- both pix and poems -- to be massively mediocre? That's not self-pity, or a manipulative bid for compliments, just an honest self-assessment. However, that hasn't ever relieved me of the compelling urge to perfect my efforts. That I then feel equally compelled to put out in the world in some way, even as I fear negative or worse yet no response. That's not to say I don't get good reactions at times, but mostly it's silence. Which leaves me feeling like that joke in which a little, not so bright kid, keeps hitting his head with a hammer. And when asked why he was doing it he replies "Because it feels so good when I stop!" :-D

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