The sweet girl and I went walking and photo-taking on this beautiful autumn day. I snapped a picture of some purple flowers and then came home and played with the image with my rudimentary photo software. I actually have some lovelier ones than this -- I tried it in regular color, grayscale, and this "solarized effect" -- but they're too high resolution to upload on my ancient computer. Thus the tiny postage stamp size (I needed to save it in a much lower resolution and then also crop for the close-up.) Some days I long for a better camera and computer, but mostly I'm just grateful for all that we have, including transient and tiny beauties like roadside flowers. And I thought this was a rather nice effect, even in miniature! For me, looking at flowers in such detail is an exercise in contemplation and awe. I realize anew the intricate and amazing amount of design included in even very small living things. What an artist our God is!
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Ooh, very beautiful! As we were coming home today, the light was so neat, with really dark clouds but yellow light flooding everything. I was wishing I had my camera...
Thanks, Erin. Yes, it's a beautiful time of year to capture some lovely moments on film. I've been having a lot of fun with yesterday's image -- despite the fact that I couldn't really upload it in the size/resolution I wanted to here, I've been able to move it in high resolution to Publisher where I've been playing with it some more. End result: I think I've got a beautiful image I can make notecards with. I think I may spend some more time I don't have being creative this way. :-) It feels great!
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