Reflections Unfurling

Haiku Poetry No. 4

"A peaceful feeling
  flowers blowing in the wind
the road less traveled."
 

 

 

 

Robin:    Where's the snowman?
Batgirl:   Maybe he melted.
Batman:  No, he's just hibernating:

 

Same picture, same filter

Screen blend mode 

Opacity adjusted.  

Now, back to the original picture

with Color Burn blend mode.

It's all in how you see it ~ 

Live within a fog or outside of it ~ 

If you happen to be in a fog, enjoy the moment!  

In The Woods



Haiku Poetry No. 3

.....clear the fog that's been blocking my vision

 

 

I took this picture while in Italy two years ago....almost deleted it this morning.  Oh,My!  What a mistake that would have been.  Remember to measure twice, cut once.

The Daily Post weekly photo challenge was (can you guess?)  GREEN




Clockwise: 
Road side park in Hot Springs, Arkansas;  Hot Springs Main Street lamp post; here's looking at you babe here at home (center); potted liriope muscari variegatia in the garden pot; green water hose amid the hydrangea leaves here in the garden. 


 

 



South Dakota Black Hills......Theresa LeBlanc Photographer

Theresa and friends took a road trip and came back with some eye-catching pictures.  I grabbed this one and call it simply - Strata. 

Excerpts from the South Dakota plaque near where this picture was taken says:  "Most of the sediment was windblown volcanic ash.  Occasionally the rivers brought gravel and stream-worn rocks from the Black Hills.  The ash weathered into clay and turned into rock.  Then erosion gullied the Badlands layers to its present landscape."

When you can't be there, just enjoy the moment through the eyes of friends. 


 

Always a choice.   But, one must first want other choices....one must then explore the possibilities.... mentally and physically search for those alternative choices. 

For example, my cone flowers in the garden were dying on the vine, oh, my!  And I didn't want them to cease to live,  to slowly fade away day by day.   Oh, they'll eventually go to seed as many things must, but I wanted to delay the process as long as possible, so I snipped this bouquet from the vine and brought it inside to fresh water in a vase. 

And, while I love this original picture of my bouquet,  it seemed a little cluttered, so knowing I have choices, I chose to do something about the noisy background clutter. 

With my clone stamp, I removed the seam in the wall paneling, then erased the gray counter top.  With my opacity reduced, I re-cloned some of the shadows away from the bouquet. 





Getting right to the black and white of the issue is always a great choice.  De-saturating the issue, then adding saturation back in is often a fun choice too.