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Midweek Monochrome #117

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Flipping Out and Narrowing Down:Cee’s CCY Challenge 22

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I have problems approaching anything in a left-brained manner and my locational dyslexia makes mirror images a problem, but there is something about  flipping an image that is intriguing to me.  I don’t really know why I prefer one view to the other, but I always do, and I know Cee can explain why.  As for cropping–that’s my baby!––all hands on instead of preplanning.  So, I’m going to take a few images to crop and flip and let’s see what happens.

I immediately saw an image within an image in this larger shot.  See if you can see it:

Version 2

Before I show the cropped version, here is this version flipped:

Version 3Here is the crop, both original and flipped:

IMG_7596IMG_7596 (1)Can you see why I chose this detail to crop?  Do you see the bird, and perhaps a chick on the branch below her?  Okay if you don’t see the chick, as it is a bit more abstract.

Both Yolanda and I prefer the right-facing bird.  I think Cee would say it is because the eye goes to the sun-shaped light spot and then moves down to the bird and circles around to the right before curling to the left, to take in the entire scene.  With the left-facing bird, the eye goes to the “sun” , down the bird and off the tail to the edge of the photo, leaving out the entire left side.  I may or may not be right about this.  All I know is that I like the first one better.

Now I’m off in search of more to flop and chop!!!


https://ceenphotography.com/2016/06/01/reminder-cees-compose-yourself-challenge-22-guide-the-viewer-and-flipping-photos/

Hide-And-Go-Seek: Flower of the Day Challenge, 10/22/15

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                                             Hide-And-Go-Seek

The rain started while we were watching an incredible Iranian film at the Lake Chapala Society.  When we emerged, the rain was a surprise, even though we’d been warned about the big tropical storm about to hit–a long arm of Hurricane Patricia that is predicted to arrive with full force at midnight tomorrow.  I have started to prepare–butane camp cooker, bottles of water freezing in the freezer, candles and oil lamps out, cooking food ahead as I’m about out of gas and I know I have a gas leak.  How could I use $200 worth of gas in three weeks?

Anyway, we decided to be kids and enjoy the block long walk to the car in the rain and were rewarded, when we ducked under cover of the little outside restaurant that was halfway to the gate of LCS, with a view of an incredible orchid tree.  (My name.  I don’t know what it is.)  An added bonus was that I was under the cover of the roof of the open air little restaurant and so I didn’t have to risk getting my lens wet.

It was only after I got home and started playing with the pictures that I spied the various little characters hidden in the flowers.  See if you can find them.

IMG_6938Can you find the koala bear?  Some may think he has more in common with a polar bear.

IMG_6939Mr. Frog is enjoying the rain.

IMG_6941Little bird is hungry, but old grandfather mouse is just wet and disgusted.

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