If you've been reading and looking at this blog for awhile now you'll know by now that I like to try all sorts of things. Every now and then when I'm toning an image I'll try to push the tones, the contrast and even the color past its normal range to see if I can make a section of the photograph that might be a little dead-come alive. Sometimes when I do this I discover something else and often I get a little lost with pushing this or that and suddenly I have an unexpected image. Many times I end up scrapping these and start over. Today I was trying to make the background pop a little more in this picture of Janae and when I did - the hair and facial tones began to do some things that I sorta liked and I began really tweaking the image. I work these like a painting, using pacities to create glazes and erasing and layering over the top to push and pull the forms and colors. I also played with borders, I do this a lot too and really haven't found what I'm looking for yet in these, but I keep trying(You'll never find it if you don't try.) If nothing else it helps add to the vocabulary of my own personal image making and might give me a tool I need done the road to make an image that I need to make. SayerMotter manipualted photograph by Richard Sayer