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A neighbor of mine has orchids all over his back yard, hanging in baskets from trees, sitting in pots on tables all over, and he let me take pictures in there one gray and misty day. The day was gray, the fence was gray, but the light was coming through the petals on the orchids just right to make them glow. To accentuate the mistiness of the day, I blurred the trees in the bg and, to make the flowers pop, I thought a little bit of a frame would be nice.

Use coupon code SBNMFD thru October 31, 2013 for 15% off artist markup!!! Back home in Florida ten years now, after 30-plus years in a VA suburb of Washington, DC, I retired in 2002 after working for the federal government as a report editor also doing desktop publishing and graphic design. I have always loved all kinds of art, beginning when I was three with fingerpaint, which I found so much less restrictive than coloring books. I was a shutterbug as a child, with my Brownie box camera but, since getting my first digital camera, have been shooting anything and everything and digitally manipulating the images, often with surprising results. Sometimes, instead of modifying a photograph, I start from scratch, resulting in some of my...