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!
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...
ReplyDeleteThanks, 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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