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:

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

Here is the crop, both original and flipped:

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!!!

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