Monster in the Dark
Red Mouth
The bloody red maw of an ogre approaches through the unconscious; a monster in the dark of a dream. In reality, the puddle reflected neon of a YMCA sign in the gloaming at the end of a kid’s birthday party water balloon battle.
An old image rediscovered with Adobe Lightroom; an accident of impatience and marketing trickery. Desperate to work with images on my new iMac, and with my Photoshop for Mac package crawling across Georgia towards Texas in a FedEx truck, I resorted to downloading the “free for now” beta of Lightroom 3. For the first time I see my 10,000 digital images in one sweep. I found this unfinished and long forgotten work from 2004; I am hooked, Adobe will suck still more money from my wallet.
My “cross-grade” copy of Photoshop CS4 finally arrived on Tuesday evening; too late to stop the tendrils of Lightroom from winding into my brain but my Mac transition is now complete and I am lost to Microsoft.
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From the same discovery:
