5 thoughts on “Sentinel”

  1. hello Loren, The prof for my modern poetry class at UMUC (University of Maryland University College) has your site as part of his online lectures. I wish to tell you how very much I appreciate your thoughts and analysis on poetry, as well as your photography and poetry. This photo is very well composed. I also work with photoshop to work my photography. thank you. mic harper

  2. Ah, you’ve already amended it. I wish I’d kept a copy of the other to compare to it. I don’t know if it’s better, but I don’t think it’s worse. Your photos lately look very painterly. Is that typical of the program you’re using or just of the effects you’re fond of in Photoshop?

  3. I guess it depends on which photos you’re talking about, Ron.

    On the cherry blossom pictures I applied an artistic effect called Sumi-e “strokes.”

    Sometimes on others I’ve “softened” the edges in order to blend various photos together. On some, like the hiking ones I haven’t done anything other than adding myself to the picture.

    And, truthfully, I’ve adjusted most of the photos more than once after I’ve posted them, just as I sometimes went back and revised poems until they sounded right to me.

    In the “Sentinel” case I added the wrecked car found on the same part of the beach where the other picture was taken because it somehow seemed to fit the theme of loss and destruction I was suggesting in the original.

  4. I like the addition of the car. And it seems you’ve added contrast and made the colors a bit richer.

    Really wonderful.

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