Thanks for the encouraging comments on my latest 'bird' - reminds me that life is all a circle: a repetition, in this case, of a visual mood that set me off with my paint/photography of a few years ago, where I'd paint on a piece of Formica, shoot it, and then scrub the paint away for the next trick. Bought a lot of paint, most of which dried up in the can... going walkies instead is more healthy!
Actually, of those shots, the one that worked best for me was using the board after it had been scrubbed, and putting a butterfly onto it rather than more paint. Charon's Ferry was the result. And no, I didn't go butterfly catching - the poor thing was just there, dead on the terrace tiles. Truly matched the rôle it was cast.
It really does underline the validity of HC-B's dictum about simply being receptive and not trying to force things. You just have to make do with what God provides, and I used to feel exactly the same way with my model work, too. I seldom went out with fixed ideas, probably because I never had much ability to formulate them in the first place.
;-)
Rob C