textures

I remember summer

I think I'm fascinated right now with the concept of working with textures. An old concept for sure, but it never struck me before that I could make my own textures! I've been walking all over the house trying to find "texture" images. I'm waiting for a good bright day to go and find textures all over town.

This is another combination of two images, one of a pink gerbera in a blue vase in the kitchen window (w/b way off, +2 full F-stops, not particularily in focus) and another of a little part of the ceiling in one of the rooms. It's upside down because I like it that way (saves me the trouble of standing on my head to look at it).

homesick

Neil, you're right. It is all about feelings.

Tonight I felt very lonely. My husband is away teaching in Nicaragua for two weeks, the weather has been dreadful, and I have a cold. I tried to make a picture of how I feel, lonely, homesick, tired - like walking outside by myself at night, looking in windows, wishing to be part of something beautiful and warm.

I had made some pictures of a wet window earlier today, thinking to use them as textures, and tonight I made this picture of a candle, the background colours are the TV. To me, they put in picture sort of my mood tonight, although, just making this image has gotten me in a much, much better mood. Go figure.

doubles

I was so happy that the thread was alive again, that I decided to make a bunch of doubles. All are from image made in the last 10 days.

Comments, as usual, are very welcome and much appreciated.

playing with moss

matches

A "multi", a blending of four separate images, 3 of the same clump of moss, one of a different one. I think it's funny how the mosses look like matches with all the red heads.

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I think what I really need to figure out is, "What is the point of any of these images?" What in the world am I trying to say with them, beyond that I think moss is absolutely fascinating. Or does it matter? What is the "essense" of these images?

Or, from a slightly different point of view, can a visually pleasing design stand on its own, without a story, especially over time?

mushroom in the sky

Composites of two different images are a lot more difficult to make than I expected. This is a composite of a closeup of a little mushroom in some moss and a picture of a couple clouds.

glassware

Another multi: