Wide, wide in the rose's side
Sleeps a child without sin,
And any man who loves in this world
Stands here on guard over him.
by Kenneth Patchen
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For the get pushed challenge given me by Suse
@susale: "choose a quote and then shoot something that goes with it, something portraying the quote or something related to it - you can add the quote on pic if you like."
Frank (my husband) suggested this -- his favorite quote of Kenneth Patchen's poetry. I love it also, but resisted doing that -- trying to find something else. In the end, my mind kept turning back to the Patchen quote.
The four layers of rose branches I shot yesterday. I cheated with the picture in the center. I didn't take that this week. That's an old photo I took 30 some years ago of our son, Dan.
I keep wanting to do something more (or slightly different) with this, but am stumped as to how to include something that touches on the "stands here on guard over him" piece -- what with the tangle of thorny branches I've got there.
As I was trying, in PS Elements, to blend the 4 branch pictures that overlapped somewhat, I was experimenting with the "smudge" tool to soften the edges and at one point tried checking the "all layers" box. To my surprise, it appeared to totally wipe out the color in the area my brush touched. This was over on the right and I decided to go with the flow and do that over parts of it that were already tending toward the white. Later, when I tried to shift the four images a bit to get the words against lighter background above and to the left, I discovered that I couldn't do that without undoing way back, because there were, indeed, big circular chunks cut out of some of the edges on that side. Hmmm... I do intend to play more with that tool, when I have the time to just mess around on a photo I'm not trying to get just right.
