Seeing in a new way

You can have a lot of fun with the free editing software that is out there on the internet.  Be careful, of course, what you download.  Picasa at www.picasa.com is one I have used for years and it has many new features.  You can play with the colors and change multiple things to make the pictures you take look like something totally different that what you started out with.  Why would you want to do this?  Well, you might accidentally come up with what you may consider an "art piece". Besides it is fun.  Take your camera, hold it high, hold it low, lay on the ground, or stand on something and get different perspectives on what you are looking at.  Look for patterns in things or the way things are arranged to make interesting shapes.  Then saturate the color, put filters over it, play around to your hearts content and you might actually get something you want to mat, frame, and hang on the walls of your home.  I am just now starting to experiment with this. I can see lots of possibilities.

This was about 15 minutes of shooting time tonight and maybe an hour of playing around with the images, but there were many more than what you see here.  Some proved too large to upload once I made so many changes to them.   I wanted to show you some that you might not be able to tell what I took the picture of, but we will save those for another day.

NOW dear followers and sneak a peekers!  I need your feedback.  Which picture (if any) look artistic to you and do you think you could see them matted and framed and on the walls?  Please leave your comments to tell me your thoughts.

AND I challenge you to take some pictures from a different perspective and then turn them into something new and unique.  Take your efforts and put them in pretty frames and make a wall arrangement and replace them with new ones from time to time!  I also would LOVE to see your work posted on Facebook or you can email it to me.

One last thing....did any of you notice the self portrait in one of these shots?