Holy Smoke! -- it's the start of a new project

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Speaking facetiously of course, I was thinking that I'm getting entirely TOO MUCH sleep and need a brand new project to keep me up late at night.



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Smoke you ask?, with a question mark. I say smoke, yes, and WHY NOT?



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So I went down the hill to the appropriately named "Don's Market" to buy some incense.



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I showed these at the class I'm taking at Stanford last evening and got a positive response. But to be honest, I think I made a fair mess of things.



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My suspicions were confirmed when I re-visited my FIRST image of smoke taken two or three weeks ago. Scrap the others--THIS example is more how I want to show smoke. I've tried just about every odd-ball technique for removing noise and then re-introducing it in a controlled manner using some rather convoluted Photoshop techniques. But forget 'dat--it's time to start over, heading back in the direction this first image. Stay tuned.


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