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upside down and backwards

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Here’s something you probably don’t know about me…..I can write backwards easily.
The kind of writing you need a mirror to decipher (unless, like me, you can also read backwards)
My friend Carol Leigh is conducting an online photo workshop at the moment and one of her
assignments is halves. Because I love making mirror images, I’m always looking for interesting
halves. What does that have to do with mirror writing? Nothing. Halves…mirrors…I digress alot 🙂

So here’s an example. This scar tissue on a saguaro reminded me of an upside down butterfly wing.

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I followed my MIRRORED tutorial and then flipped the resulting image 180 degrees and voila….
A Goth Moth!

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ocotillo sunrise

We were treated with an even more spectacular sunrise the morning after the other one this week. The colors you see are exactly as they were! This time I walked up close to an Ocotillo and filled the frame with the stalks. I loved the image but thought it might be a good candidate for mirroring so here’s the result. If you’re interested in knowing how to do this in Photoshop or in Photoshop Elements, click on the photo for my tutorial.

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