I very much appreciate the input. I hesitate to ask these favors, as am not posting often myself. The wonderful mix of vision on this forum though is valued and I trust your openess in commenting. This particular image is among a group of ten under consideration to accompany 17 lines of prose attempting to reconcile the almost empty calm washed in a vague sense of restlessness that lingered long after awakening from a dream.
I thought I had the image I was after until I spent several hours working my way around this one location because something there was taking me to the same place. I then came in with my water spotted images and this was the one that kept me working back and forth through the surfaces trying not to have any of them overwhelm the other, but continue to speak what they each had to say over the other...working this one was an almost compelling pleasure, trying to find which curtain to lift , which to light and which to allow to disappear.
But then I had the "green flash" that it was only my dream informing my self critique. Hence my request for help and independent reaction.
I try not to speak out too often as I know you prefer to hear critique from those who put their own self out there as a measure of where the noise is originating, but I do hope you know how much I value the relationships here. Thank you all for taking the time...
... and Walter, surefootedness really for me is stumbling around in the dark over and over carefully trying to find the path I just know was there when I set out in the light...I find it eventually it again by the feel of the stones as I go. Thank you for the kind thought.
...and Eric...mystery?... right on the head...as indeed I am, even to myself. I keep hoping that the mystery of it all is confirmation I may not actually have died yet...