Reflect

A dock on the Connecticut River at Old Saybrook--the light there today was like that on the inside of a shell.

It rained heavily last night, but as I was having breakfast, the sun was breaking through the clouds. By the time I left for work, clean white clouds were floating an a crisp blue sky. They were both reflected in a puddle in our driveway. I like the way Cut Out isolated the leaf. I "cheated" on this one. Ordinarily, I only apply the filter or effect to the whole photo and let it be. This time, I re-cropped. because some of the side elements that established place--like the bit of evergreen at the lower left that one would find at the edge of a puddle--were simply distracting once I'd applied the filter.

A scene from a street in Hartford, as reflected in the window of the Connecticut Children's Medical Center. A combination of the Posterize filter and the Fluorescent Chalk effect makes a cubist drawing out of it. I didn't straighten out the curves in the original, as it reflects the true nature of the building; but I thought more parallel lines worked better with the "drawing."