Picture This

Sunday, May 19, 2024

Today’s header photo captures a fragment of a house in the distance. The image has the potential to become a “summer mood” birthday gift for myself. It’s appealing but yet seems incomplete, it’s drawing me to work on it.

This process of personal gifting seems fine and inspiring. It has me working again with my camera and, this time, tapping more into its astonishing capabilities.

What makes me feel best is pushing my brain’s eye and making myself observe routine surroundings more creatively. There are elating moments when I discover that one or more downloaded images immediately can stimulate my imagination.

This image surprised and stimulated me without a single editing pixel. It’s a natural gift, and also emotional to me, for framing and adding to my special-pieces gallery wall.

The ultimate “summer mood” birthday photograph might become several, perhaps a collection of images and even a collage.

By assuming these activities, I’ve also been working through some sort of mental block. I can feel myself tuning more into what’s happening outside my head. This project becomes more special by expanding my sense of personal freedom and attuning me more to my physical surroundings.

Dear Friends: Planning offers little certainty of an experiment turning out well. Diana