Thoughts
I was looking through my gallery, at the older stuff in particular, and I was very struck by some of the things I saw. There were technical aspects that I was just dying to fix. Something held me back, though, and I soon realized that it was what I saw in my older pieces beyond just the simple over-use of actions and color filters. It was the content. I made manips because I loved them, because they meant something. I could write pages in the descriptions, going on about why this was here and what this meant, and the symbolism beyond this little detail.
Then things started to change. My photomanipulations matured and I started doin