MEMORIES UNFURL

"Memories Unfurl" (4-21-16 005[3]) is a new version of an old photo of mine. Still not sure about the brightness, if you will, it's slightly muddy to my eye. I do want that daguerreotype look. But anything I've done to try to perk it only a wee bit, has changed other things about the pic I don't want touched. Yeah, once I've tamed at least some basics of GIMP I should be able to deal handily with this sort of thing. But Windows 10 Photos can't do what I want, no matter how I fuss. Kinda, sorta like life, ey? No matter what we do, it has it has its own mind, its own trajectory.

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LIQUEFACTION

"Liquefaction" (3-22-16 006v2[3]) just about describes how I'm feeling today. Too many storms and shakeups. Stability? What's that?! BTW, I've been talking here about how happy I was to finally have GIMP loaded to this new computer? That, and how I've been putting off really taking on learning it? Well, now I see why. You see, I tend to procrastinate and then find out there was good reason when I do get to whatever I'd been putting off doing. Some big problem I must have been intuitively and unconsciously aware of and was avoiding dealing with. With GIMP I found out today that that problem has to do with file formats. I've googled for a solution but don't have the energy left to see if the solution will actually work. Or if it does, if it's simple enough to do with every single pic I edit in GIMP. Sigh, and so I continue with my meltdown ... and leave any further dealing with GIMP for another day.

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EYE OPENERS

"Eye Openers" (4-21-16 022v3g[2]) was just fussed out of a really old version of an even older pic, using Windows 10's Photos program. (Still procrastinating about taking on the task of learning GIMP.) I've always enjoyed this particular crop of the original shot and (can you guess?) have several color combo and texture versions of it. Each of the three blossom centers have what look like (to me) little scenes: trees and other plant life. In this one I managed to bring them out a bit more than in others. And the color combo and its softness put me in mind of Easter. Yeah, I know we haven't even hit St. Pat's Day yet, but I sure am yearning for spring. (As I sit here proofing this with my hands under my armpits to warm them ... I just turned the heat off, for cryin' out loud!)

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WINTER BRANCHES

"Winter Branches" (4-16-10 10002v3) is a very old pic that I've always really liked. Probably have posted it here many years ago as I can't imagine I wouldn't have. Today all I did was ever so slightly soften the "clarity" (sharpening, in Photoshop terminology). I initially tried increasing it but was surprised to find taking it back just a wee bit was better. I've begun to wonder what the effect of all the various editing programs is on the re-editing process of some of my oldest pix. There has to be at least a half dozen of them underneath this one, for instance. Guess it doesn't really matter as I go by what I actually see on my screen, not by what the usual expectation might be for, say, increasing the clarity. I.e., I do all my editing with a "let's try this and see what happens" attitude. Anyway, back to this pic: the original photo was taken from the window of a friend's car where we were parked. I remember being immediately taken with this tree and so, the photo. BTW, it was snapped just about this time of year, nine years ago.

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EVEN WINTER REMEMBERS SPRING

"Even Winter Remembers Spring" (12-2-17 012v2c[2]) ain't no great shakes, and doesn't get more than a big "meh..." from me. But I've been at pic editing on this and many other pix, for quite some time today and decided to leave it at this meh one. Still, it has possibilities, I'd say. Maybe some other day I'll go at it in GIMP. I only used Windows 10's Photos program today, on an already much edited version of the pic from late last year. My biggest problem with it? A matter of contrast, between the colors and the black and white spaces. Just could not get them all in proper balance with each other. E.g., to my eyes, this version is slightly murky overall. (I tend to be cautious when I say anything about "murk" or some such complaint, as my cataracts do effect color perception, etc.)

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THE PERSISTENCE OF FALL

"The Persistence of Fall" (12-2-17 004v2) is an old version of an old pic, that I just now fussed with a bit in Windows 10 Photos program. Mostly just clarity and color contrasts. Not having much luck these days in producing pix I like. Or maybe it's a lack of patience, I do give up a lot. But there is that (as I often say) about this pic that I do like. All the fussy lines and little shapes. And although I have versions of it in color combos I may like a bit more, this one will definitely do. Even though we're headed for spring soon, autumn's been haunting me, so it suits me in that way as well.

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