cherry blossom

Carpe Diem Weekend Meditation #85 Photo-shopping Haiku (2) Cherry Blossom


Most of my 'work for pay' life was spent in the field of graphics.  The application was printed circuit boards.  I did some camera work to reduce the old red tape 4:1 images to the actual size.  I ran step and repeat machinery to make layups of the same image multiple times.  I used bifocal microscopes to correct flaws in the artworks.  Exacto knives were used to trim .0005 inch (.00127 cm) off a circuit image to maintain the proper air gap.  Art brushes and pens removed pinholes picked up during imaging.  Later in my career years the work was computerized.  Digital manipulation was much easier.  Mouse clicks and key boards eventually replaced Exacto knives and touch up pens.  In retirement those computer skills are still used daily.  I Photoshop everything from damaged photos to creating one of a kind designs for projects.  Let's see if that skill can be used to Photoshop a haiku.

Original haiku:

even an old man
has New Year's eyes...
cherry blossoms

© Kobayashi Issa (Tr. David G. Lanoue)


even an old man
has sparkling eyes beneath
cherry blossoms

© petra domina


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