Awakening Senses - Paying attention - v4-#14 - Orange Lily

Today's Picture to Ponder Photos
Orange Lily - looking into the black-lit flower close up and then stepping back - The second photo has been selected out and mounted on a different background. The greenery on the right is from a bromeliad plant that sits on the table. Though not related to the lily, I kept it in for balance.
                  
Self-Reflecting Queries
Today's flower photos have gone through long stories as I spent a few hours "playing" with Photoshop Elements, experimenting with some of the tools I'm learning about in the online class that's completing.
                     
The ultimate bottom line took me full circle back to almost the beginning in the third photo, the lily with a view of my patio and the outside behind it. What I discovered after finishing working with the flower alone in the middle photo, was that the liveliness of the photo was with the light coming through. It somehow needed to show the source for the energetic feeling to stay with the flower.
                     
In attempting to cover up what I thought was the distracting background, I lost sight of the essence of the imagery. Now, transferring this experience to Self-Reflecting Queries:
                     
Are there places in your life where you may be losing focus and thus depleting the energy in yourself and/or a situation?
                     
Also, might there be places in your life to which you are totally not paying attention, for no other reason that you're not? If so, I invite you to stop and take some moments on a regular basis to really look around at your spaces and possible people or things in them to "be with" them totally.
                     
Today's lilies happened to be on a stalk growing outside in the bed in front of the front window of my home.  Given that the plant was  full grown with four lilies, it had to have been there for some time, AND I had not noticed them at all until I specifically went out there to see what was available for photographing in nature in my own environment. These are bulbs, I think, that I must have planted last year and I do not even recall that.
                     
If you accept the invitation to look around you with newly opened eyes, have fun discovering some of the things you might be missing in your life.

 

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