
This post did not work out the way I had originally intended. Natch.
The photo above I quite like, and I worked on it for a good long time--longer, in fact, than I spent on the photo in the last post. It's very painterly, and it vaguely captures either a cross, or a landscape, or perhaps something altogether different in the style of Georgia O'Keefe. I like the colors, but I juiced them up a bit much, perhaps.
The next two photos all came from the same ur-photo from which I made the image above, but I was less successful with them in capturing anything of note. I included them here only to show y'all the crazy malleability one has to create images (or distort them, depending upon on how one looks at it) with even a rudimentary photo software program such as the one I often use.


Chimp in the china shop that I am, I failed to save the ur-photo that produced these three other images. The third photo is the closest to the original; I only changed the color scheme by converting it to its negative then turning it sepia-toned. It's an image of one of the oversized spotlights that lights up our city's trademark, the clock tower. The untouched photo below is another (different) photo of the same lamp, and I include it here to show you the coloring of the ur-photo.

Y'all ready for a non-sequitur coda?
I find non-sequiturs, especially narrative or emotional non-sequiturs very amusing, and they're right at the core of this blog, baby.
Like this. See what I mean?
See how you're floating in a bizarro-world of self-referentiality? It feels good, doesn't it? Especially the part right before your head explodes. Poof.
Oh, on second look that blue oval is hypnotizing. I can't look away.
Big.
Blue.
Oval.