PICTURE PERFECT --- PRECIOUS

PRECIOUS

Precious, ever since reading, and then seeing, LORD OF THE RINGS, I cannot help but think of Gollum and his Precious.  What is precious to us?  Is it false?  Is it true?  If false will it  keep its'  hold on us, even taking us to our end, as it did Gollum?  I like to think, that most of us, will see some light at the end, some illumination, setting us right.

 

 

When the light is dimming,

and  vision blurred,

When the end is near,

and darkness closing,

What is most precious to us

in all we possess

Becomes crystal clear.

Camera is a Kodak EasyShare Z612,  found a tintype on Google Images, which I altered and printed out to use in the picture. That pretty lady sure looks familiar.  I put the picture into B&W, played with the exposure, and then put it into sepia,  painted in the gun smoke, and this was the outcome.  The hat is mine, from around 1970 or so, it doesn't fit too well now, I had more hair back then.  The knife is a butcher bladed bowie, and the revolver is a Ruger Old Army .44.  The bag is my leather possibles bag for a black powder rifle. The pocket watch is mine, a coleman brand.  And the money I need to get back to the bank before morning.

(Sorry, the Icon is the closest I could come to finding opus in a cowboy hat.)

PICTURE PERFECT

~ Each week a theme will be posted up on Wednesday, and you are invited to put up your best picture with that theme in mind, it should be just

 ONE and ORIGINAL,

 i.e not off the internet, 

Here is the link to Picture Perfect Foto Friday Home page:

http://fotofriday.multiply.com/