artistic privileges...

...are what i'm claiming today

with this shot - because one of those things happened - i'm certain it's happened to some of you, too - at least i hope so, 'cuz i don't want to be the only one - somehow my settings got messed with on my camera - imagine that! i'd love to blame the princess diva - but she'd probably hiss at me and refuss to allow me shooting access the next time i want to blip her - so i'm not going down that road - i can only guess my finger accidently shifted the buttons - whatever... i ended up shooting all my pictures in a setting i've never used before - why i never checked what i was doing? i don't know - i'm tired, people - i don't sleep well is the only excuse i have for today -

and so i was left looking at pictures on my computer - which appeared pretty worthless - unless i wanted to play around a bit - do the whole post-processing thing - take a bit of artistic license - and guess what? it's exactly what i decided to do - 'cuz i believe i'm pretty good at it - i enjoy playing around with colors and design - once i did it with this little gem - i saw it looking like one of those old-fashioned candle snuffer-thingys - you know what i'm talking about? to put out the flames of candles? then i began liking it more - everything turned around - i knew it was all going to be okay - just by playing with colors and processing - taking a bit of liberty with the picture - does anybody really care i do that? we are called to make the best of - the most of - what we are given - hope it will bring some enjoyment to others - maybe even put a smile on someone's face - if i have done that, by playing around - making some adjustments - altercations - due to a mistake on my part initially - then who can complain about any wrong doing - i say move forward with it - and by all means - make it...

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happy day.....