Throw Away
As I go through my pictures on days I’m not in the mood to go take new photos, trying to remember which ones I’ve already used on my blog, I also take the time to delete photos I know I will never use. But today I got a wild idea and decided to restore the picture I’d just deleted and see if there was any part of it I could use. After an hour or two of playing, I came up with fourteen possibilities. I’m posting them all, and at the end, the picture of the giant blooming castor bean plant they all came from.
Below is the unedited photo I threw away and then retrieved–the mother of them all:
I guess the moral of the story is that there are lots of possibilities in even a picture you think doesn’t warrant saving. Unfortunately, I see this potential in other parts of my life as well, which is why I got distracted waiting for all these photos to download to my media file and started sorting closets. I’m proud to say I sorted out a big box of clothes to give away and another to sell. Photos are an easy thing to hold on to because they don’t take up much space, and if all else fails you can send them to the cloud. Now if they could just invent a cloud for the rest of the clutter of my life!!!.
Do not miss this photo: http://ceenphotography.com/2015/09/27/flower-of-the-day-september-27-2015-bashful-dahlia/
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Ah, the merry joys of special effects 🙂 I do that a lot in the winter when I’m housebound and can’t get out to shoot. Also, I’ve discovered the built-in special effect in the cameras that I never used before. They are even MORE entertaining.
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But again, technical skills involved. I have to stick to the baby toys!!! I want to see some of your tricks, though. Please???
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Wow! I’m amazed at all the things you were able to do with this shot. One of my favorites: the one of the undersides of the leaves.
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Fascinating things you can do with one photo, Judy. I love some of the abstractions that you’ve created.
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hard not to get so caught up that one misses the eclipse and other niceties of life such as meals and friends! Ha. What I do is pretty simple compared to Photoshop. Thanks for being fascinated, though, bk.
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You are having a lot of fun. I have never seen this plant before, so thank you for not deleting it. 😀
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If I have any more fun, people are going to start calling me a recluse! I get into this photo play and can’t stop!!
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It is a weed. Used to grow profusely along the beach in CA and loves my spare lot here. Is is very very poisonous…But also used to make Castor Oil. It grows to tree size here and I cut it back every year but have a new jungle by the end of the rainy season the next year. I’ve never noticed its blooms before, but it is so high it is peeking over my 20 ft. high wall!
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