Cropping, negative, playing with photo-edit

Using a couple of the pictures I posted this week on Babasiga and here, I tried to get different compositions, and shapes. I guess if I had photo-shop I would never get any housework done at all! In earlier times I used a photocopier a lot, enlarging, cropping, finding new shapes, then making a new painting. But that certainly takes time. I like to start with 'reality' then find abstract shapes and textures eventually.
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