TAKING AIM

"Taking Aim" (9-28-18 005v2) was fussed into shape a while back from a fairly recent pic of mine. It took a lot of work to make that suggestion of a sniper's nest and rifle clear (or at least clear to me :-D), without any messing on my part with the actual tree branch shapes. And there were also some distracting shadows and such to deal with. Oh, well, all in a morning's distraction. Which actually for me these days, is a better deal than usual. Give me these sorts of challenges any day over the rest that proliferate at this end of life.

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THE SAMHAIN TREE

"The Samhain Tree" (9-28-18 002v2f) was just re-morphed from a fairly recent pic of mine. Between this blog and my dreams&poetry blog, I've posted several other versions in recent weeks. Today's was clearly influenced by Samhain (Halloween). (From internet: "The Festival of Samhain marked the end of the Celtic year and the beginning of the new one and as such can be seen to be the equivalent of New Year's Eve." And it is still celebrated by many neo-pagan groups as New Year's.) A tremendous amount of fussing went into this version. Maybe even more than usual for me with some of my more abstract pix. And it's still not quite balanced visually, at least to my old, cataracted eyes. I.e., that roundish area in the upper left tends to outweigh the rest of the pic's shapes. In other words, it's still a bit distracting. Ah well, as one of the tenets in that ancient Japanese aesthetic points out: nothing's perfect. :-) And the other two tenets? Nothing's finished, and nothing's permanent. All three considered, they kinda, sorta describe life, ey?

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WHY SHE LOVES TREES

"Why She Loves Trees" (5-14-17 004v2) was just ever so slightly cropped. It's been hanging fire since taken back in May of 2017. Don't know why. Maybe I had trouble with it's unusual focus and composition. But today I find it welcoming and would love nothing better than to be standing there right now, viewing this tree live. BTW, Happy Halloween (or as it's said in the pagan tradition, may you have a Blesséd Samhain).

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AT THE CRACK OF DAWN

"At the Crack of Dawn" (10-5-09 7336v4k) was just morphed from a very old morph of an even older original pic of mine. Had lots of trouble trying to get the right salmon pink, like the one we see here so often at sunrise/set. Well, at least those of us who are often out and about at either sun-up or sun-down to see it. I'm usually not, but have seen it enough over my 11 years living here in South Central CA to recall it. Of course, color is difficult to match accurately from memory (in my experience). There were also some minor and one major composition problems. The minor ones I've dealt with to my satisfaction. The major one? I'm not sure. It's one of those sorts of problems that I see only after looking at a pic for quite some time as I fuss at it. Then when I come back to it later, don't see it right away. So, is that a problem or just a good illustration (pun intended) of the expression "It's all in how you look at it?" :-)

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AND THE BLESSINGS RAIN DOWN

"And the Blessings Rain Down" (10-5-097369v12d) is a slightly different version of a pic posted here a long time ago (flipped on its "head," and brightened a wee bit). It's another of those I re-discovered in recent photo/filing work. This one gets me mostly because of the rainbow of bright colors. Have been a sucker for same since childhood. :-) But I also like that draping effect or, as I call it in the pic's title, rain.

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NEED SHE SAY MORE?

"Need She Say More?" (9-22-15 025v2) was just finally cleaned up in several little places that it's needed for years. I also made two other versions (and suspect others may also be brewing). But I like the flat out realism of this one. Well, mostly real. Don't think I've ever seen a rose in a totally black space. :-) This is one of those many pix I came across in my filing/re-organizing work on print copies, believe it or not. I have an old, faded copy of this on xerox paper, with computer location info scribbled on it and filed away for just such use. I.e., to be reminded that it exists, lost somewhere among my almost 13,000 photos on my computer. I have two fat, pocketed folders for just such a use. One is of good copies on odd sized photo paper that I might find some use for as a card or for pasting on my front door -- usually with folder and file number for the pic on the back or a sticky note, etc. The other is jam packed with poor copies on xerox paper with the folders and file numbers on them, for locating on my 'puter. Not to mention the thousands of 4X6 print copies on photo paper that I have in boxes, filed by general categories. Though they are not much use in locating a pic on my 'puter, they are often where I first go for a pic copy to use on a birthday or other greeting card I want to make up. Back to this pic: it's just as well it hung fire for so many years. As I only somewhat recently learned some Photoshop "tricks" that made it possible to clean up those last little bits that were distracting. Especially love that "lasso" function!

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