RABID ROSE

"Rabid Rose" (10-24-15 017v3e) was just tortured from a very old version of an even older original pic of mine. What else can I say? It's of the center of a wide open rose that I've fussed with a great deal in Photoshop. Not so much the shapes, but trying to get the colors/contrasts "right." I did use the "blocks" filter a wee bit on it, but only to exaggerate the shapes already there. I kept trying to think of a title for the pic that includes the sort of "stag horns" I see coming out of the center. But I gave up when the word "rabid" hit me. Wonder what all that says about my mood? A lot, but I'll leave it at that. BTW, I'm also not all that content with this pic, but ain't gonna fuss any further, at least not today. :-)

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SPINNING GOLD

"Spinning Gold" (10-27-15 021v4c) was just morphed from a very old version of an even older original pic of mine. As I often say here, I also have many other versions of this crop of the original. If you'd like to see another one, here's the link to the poem and pic I posted to my dreams&poetry blog this morning. I had fun using a wee bit of Photoshop's "liquify" filter on the dreams&poetry blog version. Just enough to emphasize the sort of downward or melting look to it all. It was already rather "drippy." Which you can see in the pic above. However, in "Spinning Gold" I emphasized the scratchiness over the drippiness (no use of liquify, mostly use of color contrast and sharpening).

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ALWAYS SEEKING THE LIGHT

"Always Seeking the Light" (1--27-15 012v4a) was just fussed out of a really old pic version of mine (of an even older photo I took). It's another of those that I both really like and have a problem with. No matter how I try cropping it, it loses something major. So I'm leaving it as is so that I can enjoy all those delicious light and shadow contrasts. However, I should add I'm not sure about the vague yellowish tone. It makes the "light" areas more interesting but also reduces the contrast a bit. Oh well, ain't gonna do nuthin' 'boudit now! Should also add that it looks better in a larger version, so just click on the image if you'd like to see more of the details.

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WHAT LIES IN WAITING

"What Lies In Waiting" (11-24-15 049v2b) is one of the other versions of yesterday's pic I mentioned. Not so happy with it now as I was yesterday (which was somewhat minimal as it was), but that happens frequently. A pic (or poem) of mine "cools" very readily. But there are things about this one that I still like: the vague mosaic effect, and that suggestion of something in the lower middle/right, waiting to surface. I think what bothers me now? The color combo, but I couldn't improve on it. At least not today. Probably more a reflection of my mood than something that can't be done. Maybe another day I'll go at it again. I do have another version in cool colors, with that dark about to surface shape outlined in white instead of black. However, that one just doesn't move me to post it. At least not yet.

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HUNGRY FOR THE LIGHT

"Hungry for the Light" (11-24-15 049v2a) was just now fudged from an old original pic of mine. And need I even say it? I have two other versions of it now as well, ones with which I went abstract. But I've always liked the original shot of the "long face" of this little succulent (that is what it is, isn't it? i.e, not a cactus) and so like this more realistic version more.

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NEW GROWTH FOREST

"New Growth Forest" (11-27-15 007v6h) was just endlessly fudged with in Photoshop (so, what else in new?). I've been thinking a lot about what the mountainsides must look like up close -- I've seen them from a car window, at a distance -- as they begin to green up again after wildfires. And we've had so many terrible ones in CA recently. Although I didn't set out to morph a pic addressing that wondering, it began to show up and so I followed it down as I worked on the pic. I have (big surprise!) a few other morphs, as well. But those tend to the more cosmic and to the idea of things falling apart. This pic's title actually makes what is probably a healthy contrast/balance to the dream poem of mine I posted today (here's a link to that poem with it's accompanying pic of mine, if you're interested).

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