When I first did this flower with raindrops, I didn’t like it at all.  Dewey blossoms?  Please.  So not me.  But I applied a plastic-lens effect and it is (of course) transformed to something imperfect and unusual. I have made an informal commitment to post once a day, the idea not being to come up with something memorable and award-worthy every day, but to exercise and push my creativity even when I don’t feel like it.  ESPECIALLY when I don’t feel like it, which is when you really learn something about yourself and about your craft.  Anyone can take a great subject, use a great camera, some professional editing software, and if they got enough sleep and haven’t had a fight with their spouse/partner/boss, come up with something to make you say “ooooo”.

On a busy, exhausted, wrung-out day, when you’re out of cat food and the neighbors play loud music and you forgot a deadline and have to stay up late — that’s when you must reach deep into your psyche and FIND a picture in your screwed-up world.

In point of fact, I was having a really good day when I created this.  But I know there will be a whole range of days when things aren’t going well and I have to find my best self anyway.