Do you see what I see?

I’m just cleaning out some of the older photos that have been waiting to be used.  I posted some of these flowers earlier, I think in September.  This is an apricot blush mum.  They look like daisies, which is why I like them.  There is something hiding in the image that I didn’t see right away.  Do you see what I see?

Mums in black and white

I had a migraine all day yesterday so I didn’t get any new photos taken like I had planned.  Spent most of the day on the couch, wishing Buster would leave me alone so I could take a nap.  I finally managed a short one.  Anyway, since I didn’t have any new images I took an old one and desaturated it.  The mums had a yellow center, but when I desaturated it looked plastic-y, so I darkened the center for a bit of a different look.  Yeah, I’m cheating.  All this for November in black and white – click here for more info.

And now moving on…

I’ve got more fall leaves I could post, but I’ve had enough.  Maybe I’ll post some more of them later, but it is time for something different.  These mums are called apricot blush, I believe.  They are the lone apricot colored mums (one plant only) planted at the office.  The area they are in consists of bushes, trees, and a whole bunch of yellow mums, some of which I posted earlier and this lone apricot mum stuck off to the side all by itself.  It looks so out of place and lonely.

Helen Philpot has writen a couple more posts about the upcoming elections.  If you’ll remember, I posted a link to Margaret and Helen’s blog a few days ago.  It is getting a lot of attention, not only because Helen is an 82 year old grandmother, but because she isn’t afraid to call it like she sees it.  Her posts are astute, clever and witty.  And she pokes fun at herself!  What’s not to like?

Art show composite

These are the photos that I’ve selected for the art show, however I’m thinking about replacing the old building and the black and white mums.  The old building looks over saturated – I don’t know if that was the fault of the printing process or if I over did it on contrast.  The B&W mums should actually be landscape rather than portrait, but I screwed up with signing the mat.  I’ll probably just buy a new mat since I have additional time.

The photos that were eliminated straight away were the wheat and daisy with blue bug photos.  They looked a tad out of focus.  Still in the running were the lily of the valley against the fence and the sunflower with bee – those two are printed and ready to go.  Or maybe yesterday’s sunflower or the untitled/newly titled sunflower.  Or a photo of Buddy’s nose and tongue or Buster and his tongue.  Those would need to be printed at the local photo lab next week, but there’s time if I go that route.  Any opinions would be most welcomed!!

Mum’s the word

(Thanks for the title, Elizabeth.)